American Life League, which has tracked abortions in the U.S. for years, is now monitoring chemical abortions with mifepristone, the fetus-killing abortion pill. ALL’s new focus on mifepristone comes after the pill has quickly become the most popular form of abortion in the U.S., accounting for two-thirds of abortions in 2023.
A chemical abortion is a two-pill process that induces a miscarriage in the womb. The first pill, mifepristone, ends the pregnancy by blocking progesterone, the pregnancy hormone, which kills the fetus. The second pill, misoprostol, induces the uterus to expel the now-dead fetus.
Katie Brown, national director of American Life League, tells AFN the popularity of mifepristone led the pro-life group to study its origins. Already aware the mail-order abortion pill is skirting abortion laws in pro-life states, ALL discovered a Mexico-based abortion group is shipping the abortion pill to women all across the U.S.
The abortion group is “Las Libres,” or The Free, which was founded in 2000. On its website, the organization describes itself as “feminist organization” that supports women in the U.S. who “lost their right to choose” when Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022.
Citing the Las Libres website, Brown says the group instructs women to create a fake email address and even wear a disguise when walking to the mailbox.
"It is just so blatantly illegal,” Brown complains, “and even going to the point that it's training women to do illegal activity with them.”
Two deaths blamed on pro-life laws
The abortion pill was in the news in recent weeks after the back-to-back deaths of two women in Georgia, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
A sympathetic ProPublica story about the women blamed their deaths on Georgia’s pro-life laws, claiming emergency room doctors left the women to die or risked violating state laws about surgical abortions.
On the Las Libres website, AFN found instructions for a woman rushing to the emergency room:
Tell all intake and medical staff that you think you’re having a miscarriage. Do not reveal that you took abortion medications—there is absolutely no way for them to know.
The Pro-Publica story also downplayed the dangers of the abortion pill even though misoprostol failed to expel the fetal tissues and gave both women sepsis.
The story also acknowledges that Miller received her abortion pills online, though the origin is not mentioned.
ALL's related report on Los Libres is "Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel."
