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A Dutch doctor and the internet are making sure Americans have access to abortion pills Aid Access, an online-only service run by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, began shipping abortion pills to people in the U.S. four years ago.
NBC NEWS ^ | July 7, 2022 | David Ingram

Posted on 07/07/2022 7:34:29 AM PDT by Morgana

A little-known European medical team is poised to become one of the most important groups in the shifting landscape of U.S. abortion bans.

Aid Access, an online-only service run by a Dutch physician, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, began shipping abortion pills to Americans from abroad four years ago. The organization’s team consists of about four doctors supervising about 10 medical staff members, and they’re difficult for U.S. authorities to reach because all are outside the country and they ship pills from a pharmacy in India.

Opponents of abortion rights have so far largely found themselves powerless to stop Aid Access from mailing abortion pills even to the most conservative corners of the country, at least while the organization’s opponents don’t control the White House. That has transformed Aid Access nearly overnight from an obscure overseas group into an essential part of the effort to keep abortion accessible nationwide.

“It’s the only clinically supported service that mails to states where telehealth for abortion is banned,” said Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.

Gomperts, who founded Aid Access in 2018, said she has no intention of changing her work now that the Supreme Court has overruled Roe v. Wade. Aid Access has been receiving 4,000 requests a day since Roe v. Wade was overturned, she said, up from 600 to 700 a day previously.

Last year, after Texas banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, orders from the state tripled in the weeks after the law took effect, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionpill; babykillers; davidingram; prolife; roevswade
This won't end well.

The abortion pill is very dangerous and is very time sensitive. It won't work after so many weeks and abortion clinics knew this. Often they would give the abortion pill but have to follow up with a D & E abortion.

Now in many states there are no abortionists to give a D & E so what will happen? Women will have to go to the hospital or else it could kill them.

1 posted on 07/07/2022 7:34:29 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

are the FDA and Customs inspecting the mail for this as vigorously as they did to keep unlicensed European baby formula from being smuggled in?


2 posted on 07/07/2022 7:38:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: Morgana

They’d be much better off sending free condoms to these lose women who keep having unprotected sex with men they just picked up at a bar.


3 posted on 07/07/2022 7:39:20 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Morgana

ooo! Can I have one? I feel like identifying as a woman. Are they in menthol flavor?


4 posted on 07/07/2022 7:49:09 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Nailed it!


5 posted on 07/07/2022 7:51:44 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school. Written in 2015.)
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To: Morgana

I have no feelings for them if they die. Its called KARMA


6 posted on 07/07/2022 7:54:41 AM PDT by roving (Blue Lives Matter More Than Children)
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To: Morgana
According to the (liberal) Guttmacher institute and the CDC

- 69% of abortions occur in blue states, who are now busy expanding abortion access

- 52% of all abortions in the USA are done pharmaceutically ie) pills. Its clear from the article this will continue

- 92% of abortions occur in the first trimester (which many red states still allow)

Sadly, SCOTUS Dobbs decision will only affect a very small percentage of abortions. Technology, globalism and liberal politics will ensure abortion continues nearly unabated.

As Solzhenitsyn said: "the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

7 posted on 07/07/2022 7:55:00 AM PDT by PGR88 (<i>)
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To: Morgana

We’ll likely never be able to completely stop the I-hate-babies crowd. But overturning RvW sure will slow them down.


8 posted on 07/07/2022 7:55:50 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: SmokingJoe
They’d be much better off sending free condoms to these lose women who keep having unprotected sex with men they just picked up at a bar.

... and then blame men for all their problems.

9 posted on 07/07/2022 7:56:37 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Morgana
The abortion pill is very dangerous...

Are we talking about RU-486? Abortion pill? A powerful anti-tumor pill developed by the Germans, that has spontaneous abortion as a side effect.

10 posted on 07/07/2022 8:01:03 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Morgana

Vaccine = abortion pill. Problem solved.


11 posted on 07/07/2022 8:01:57 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Morgana

Look for the Netherlands, Canada and European socialist states to open abortion clinics within their consulates in the United States. Those consulates will provide abortions in states that protect life.


12 posted on 07/07/2022 8:04:48 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Morgana
When will Abortion MANDATING in Democrat states be: “Coming to America!?”:

All Adult Female Democrats are, “ REQUIRED to get an abortion within 10 days of a positive pregnancy test or face PRISON TIME!”

When you are notified about your pregnancy, please come to the clinic, wearing a mask. We will update your Covid shots and abort your unwanted pregancy in the same visit.

No appointments are necessary. The abortion and Covid shots are free after your donation To the DNC and your local Democrat party.

13 posted on 07/07/2022 8:12:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Law/Order/Sanity took the train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, 6 January, 2020!!!)
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To: Morgana

What? Are you insane. 50% of all abortions in the USA are medical induced. The self resolving rate for under 8 weeks is 98% they proceed just like a normal menstrual cycle. Even at 15 weeks the self resolving rate is 85%. From a medical stand point there is zero difference between a natural miscarriage and a medically induced miscarriage.

After 24/48 hours any residue of the medications has metabolized out.of the body. A bloodtest not a physical examination would be conclusive one way or the other. From that point forward a woman’s health is the focus and both are treated identically no matter state law at that point.

Federal privacy law means a woman is under no obligation to disclose to any entity including a hospital that she took any medications we have absolute privacy in with our medical data from covered entities which are enumerated directly in the HIPAA law. Hospitals are covered entities you have zero obligation to disclose anything to them and would be a fool too in a redstate. Use a third party to receive an anonymous parcel via international mail with that third party not in state jurisdiction and the state cannot do crap about it. Only the US Federal government has jurisdiction with foreign countries states are expressly prohibited in the constitution again that is enumerated powers of the feds one of 8 that are directly written in the articles.


14 posted on 07/07/2022 7:02:08 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Morgana

Isn’t the death rate for the mom high with the baby killer pill?


15 posted on 07/08/2022 4:56:37 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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