In a recent study, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin examined data from Aid Access. This self-identifying “non-profit” telehealth abortion service ships Mifepristone and misoprostol to women in all 50 states. The authors of the study claimed that telemedicine has become a crucial access point for lower-income pregnant women seeking abortions.
Oh, the ignorance of the highly educated.
The study’s glowing headline attempts to frame telehealth abortion as a lifeline for the poor. But when you pull back the curtain, you find a system that offloads risk onto women, shields abortionists from accountability, and leaves some of the most vulnerable in our society alone in pain, sometimes delivering fully formed babies into toilets.
After Roe v. Wade was mercifully overturned in 2022, Aid Access saw usage of its services spike in states with strong pro-life protections. The study found that telehealth abortions were more than twice as high in these states. Why? Abortion providers are skirting protective pro-life laws by mailing pills into states where unfettered abortion is no longer the law of the land.
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What exactly do telehealth abortion pills get these women? It isn’t health care. It’s a DIY abortion kit with no physical exam, no ultrasound, and no assurance that they aren’t about to take a drug that could endanger their lives. The very idea that we can mail these pills to vulnerable women, call it “access,” and pretend they’ll be fine is both dangerous and dishonest.
Take the case of “Jane Doe,” a woman who filed a lawsuit against a Planned Parenthood affiliate after taking abortion pills at home, alone. She had not been given an ultrasound. No one confirmed how far along she was. She says she was misled, and it’s why she found herself in the most traumatic moment of her life, delivering a live baby into her bathroom toilet. That child, a boy, showed signs of life before dying in her arms. Her story is not fiction. It’s part of the public record, filed in court documents in Texas [See: Doe v. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast].
This is what happens when abortion profiteers sell “convenience”, without scruples and no concern for healthcare.
Despite the known risks of hemorrhage, incomplete abortion, and sepsis, the abortion industry continues to push the narrative that abortion pills are as safe as Tylenol. That lie is costing women their health, their dignity, and sometimes, their lives. The FDA acknowledges that up to 4.6% of women who take mifepristone will end up in the ER. Peer-reviewed studies have shown that ER visits following chemical abortions have risen nearly 500% in just over a decade. Yet groups like Aid Access continue to ship the pills with no accountability and no consequences.
Shield laws passed in states like California, New York, and Massachusetts protect these out-of-state providers from prosecution, even when they send pills into states with pro-life laws. These shield laws do not protect women. They protect abortion profiteers who operate across state lines, knowing they can’t be held responsible if something goes wrong. And lots can go wrong. A woman in Texas can suffer hemorrhaging, infection, or worse, and the abortionist in New York or San Francisco who mailed her the pills? Legally untouchable.
This is not “access.” It’s abandonment. It’s a calculated decision to target low-income women, not with support, but with a pill and a promise, and zero accountability when it goes wrong.
So the next time someone claims telehealth abortion is about helping the poor, as did the researchers at the University of Texas, ask them about who’s cleaning up the blood. Ask them what dignity looks like when a woman delivers a child into a toilet. Ask them why women end up alone in ERs, terrified and lied to.
We don’t need more access to abortion pills, and we don’t need telemedicine dispensing poison. We need more protection for women because real healthcare doesn’t leave you bleeding in silence. Genuine compassion doesn’t come in a brown envelope.
And real justice doesn’t shield those who profit from pain.
LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
