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Pro-abortion group launches abortion pill ad campaign at gas stations in two states
Live Action News ^ | August 21, 2025 | Kelli Keane

Posted on 08/29/2025 7:44:01 AM PDT by Morgana

A pro-abortion “health education” group has launched an ad campaign this month in an attempt to reach women in rural West Virginia and Kentucky.

Key Takeaways:

* Mayday Health was formed in June 2022 in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Its founders are well-connected in the journalism and financial sectors.

* Mayday places billboards and ads in areas where abortion is restricted, under the guise of providing “preventative reproductive health information.”

* Its latest ad campaign targets rural women in Kentucky and West Virginia with a series of ads placed at gas stations.

The Details:

An article in the Kentucky Lantern describes Mayday Health — a group launched in response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and which focuses heavily on giving women information on how and where to get abortions — as a mere “health education nonprofit.”

But this alleged “health education” group’s own social media exposes what it’s really focused on: Pro-abortion group launches abortion pill ad campaign at gas stations in two states image

The group’s latest ad campaign is set to run from August 11 to September 7, and will have ad placement at 104 rural gas stations in Kentucky and West Virginia.

According to the Lantern, the ads read, “Pregnant? Don’t want to be? Learn more at Mayday Health.”

Why rural gas stations? According to Mayday’s Executive Director, Live Raisner, gas stations are the hubs of rural communities.

She told the Lantern:

Many rural counties in West Virginia and Kentucky have few or no OB-GYN providers.

Some have lost their only hospitals, their only clinics. So routine education and preventative reproductive health information is much harder to access through traditional medical channels.

And so that’s why we decided to advertise at gas stations.

Raisner made another statement which — given the fact that most abortions are now actually done by pill — seems odd:

We heard this sobering statistic that only 10% of Americans even knew what abortion pills were.

And with clinics closed, reproductive options became very limited for women across the United States.

We knew that a massive education campaign needed to be executed to inform people that they still have options.

But is this really an “education campaign” or is it a marketing strategy for abortion?

Mayday has been involved in other billboard campaigns, including these:

* July 2022: Mayday Health erected billboards in Mississippi, where abortion is restricted. At that time, Raisner told the media, “Abortion pills have been approved by the FDA for decades. They’re safe. They’re effective through the end of the first trimester. And hardly anyone knows about them.” (Apparently, three years later, they’re still making similar claims.)

* March 2023: Mayday placed mobile billboard trucks in 14 states restricting abortion, stating, “We wish that everybody could just get these medications as easily as you can get Tylenol or Viagra in this country. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” (Read more on the Tylenol/Viagra comparison here.)

* May 2025: Mayday flew a banner over the Indy 500 advertising “ABORTION PILLS BY MAIL” in all caps.

* August 2025: The group has placed a “mifepristone and misoprostol” ad on a boat touring the Gulf of Mexico.

The Background:

Mayday Health states on its website:

Our mission is to share information on how to access safe abortion pills and gender-affirming care in any state. We hope to empower people to make their own informed decision about their own bodies. Our information comes from top clinicians, lawyers and health experts.

A citation in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA abortion-pill related court documents… states, “Mayday Health… focuses on those who live in states with abortion bans, giving users step-by-step instructions on how to set up temporary addresses in an abortion permissive state and forward the mail into the banned state.”

The website contains a “quick exit” button, as previously reported by Live Action News:

MayDayHealth, which recently erected abortion billboards promoting “abortion options” in states that restrict abortion, has also implemented the cache erasing tab, redirecting the browsers of users to the WeatherChannel when clicked. MayDay is one of the few that published the quick exit tab when their website went live online June of 2022.

The “health education” offered by Mayday is featured on the home page: Pro-abortion group launches abortion pill ad campaign at gas stations in two states image

On its website, Mayday directs users to just one place under its “state by state guide to abortion pills” and its “Abortion pill FAQs” dropdown indicators: online abortion pill distributor Plan C.

Why does this matter?

* Plan C tells women that they can ‘safely’ take abortion pills after 13-14 weeks gestation. “Abortion pills are usually taken in the first 13-14 weeks of pregnancy. Many providers stick to a 12-week guideline, which is what the World Health Organization recommends. We know people safely take abortion pills later in pregnancy,” Plan C claims. The site says “how people take abortion pills after 12 weeks… is different from how they take them before 12 weeks,” and says, “Taking pills later in pregnancy can be more painful and might not work as well,” along with the fact that “the risk of complications goes up as the pregnancy continues.”

* Plan C says the abortion pill is “very safe” while warning about the so-called pro-life “scams.” The site directs users to a fact sheet from the pro-abortion group ANSIRH about the abortion pill’s alleged safety, and warns users not to fall for what it refers to as “scams” — “abortion pill ‘reversal’” (Plan C claims an abortion can’t be “reversed”) and “pregnancy centers.”

Mayday founders Sam Koppelman and Nathaniel Horwitz also reportedly founded Hunterbrook Media and Hunterbrook Capital. A reporter who looked into the two founders said the men have “a pretty ridiculous network”; one of Hunterbook’s advisers, according to the New Yorker, is Paul Steiger, the founder of ProPublica, which has won a Pulitzer for its dishonest narratives alleging that state pro-life laws are to blame for women’s deaths.

The Bottom Line:

Women deserve real health care and real support for unexpected pregnancies. The abortion pill is portrayed as safe, yet research has shown that it may be much more dangerous than what is currently stated by the FDA. Ending the life of one’s child is not a “quick fix,” and many women have found themselves traumatized by it.

They, and their babies, deserve better than abortion.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionpill; chemicalabortion; kentucky; mayday; medicalabortion; mifepristone; misoprostol; prolife; westvirginia

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1 posted on 08/29/2025 7:44:01 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Sick.


2 posted on 08/29/2025 7:49:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Very.


3 posted on 08/29/2025 7:52:29 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana
Mayday Health is a Massachusetts-based non-profit.

It surely suggests that the widespread use of 501(c)3 entities needs be constrained to actual charity, to stop the lobbying, the influencing, and the simple politicking being done under the guise of "charity."

Given that abortion pills are products made by pharmaceutical companies, this "raising awareness" is essentially marketing through third party messaging.

4 posted on 08/29/2025 7:54:20 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Morgana

The Democrat Party lost me when they went all in and all out to promote abortion and the LGBT movement.


5 posted on 08/29/2025 8:03:03 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Morgana

DemonicRATS hate human life.


6 posted on 08/29/2025 8:03:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana
And this is why demonicRATS need illegal immigrants. They are preventing their own future demonicRATS from ever being born.

Some day this realization will sink in. But it is not this day.

7 posted on 08/29/2025 8:05:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana

A health education “non-profit”? Where does their money come from, who are the leaders, and how much are they paid? Guaranteed this money has a government source ultimately, even if they laundered it through several foundations and cut outs.


8 posted on 08/29/2025 8:08:07 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Morgana

DemonRats would like to turn this country into a Hell Hole and then have the audacity to blame MAGA for the consequences.


9 posted on 08/29/2025 8:12:56 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Morgana

Mayday Health:

“Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.”


10 posted on 08/29/2025 8:16:43 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Morgana

Nothing say meaningless hook-up like ads for killing children at gas stations...


11 posted on 08/29/2025 8:18:12 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: Texas Eagle

They are truly nothing but a death cult. They want birth control in every way possible. They try to convince women to never have kids using the excuses of careers, the planet, etc. If a pregnancy happens, they see it as a “crisis” and want abortions at every stage. Abortion is their sacrament.
If the baby manages to get born, they want the mom to be able to kill the baby with impunity for 30 days after.
If it makes that hurdle, they demand they be pumped full of injections including Covid, and sexually transmitted Hep-B vaccine because 3 crack babies in Baltimore got it.
Then the kiddo makes first grade... now they run a gauntlet of government perversion indoctrination to celebrate homosexuality, talk them into sex changes and fertility killing drugs. They dope them up on ritalin if they even slightly act like a male. They brutalize the boys if they even slightly think about girls like a normal male does and make them understand that a female has all the power and can accuse them of sexual abuse at the drop of a hat.
Half the guys today opt out of the fem centric universities and play video games. The females all complain they have no good males...
The national birth rate has dropped off a cliff. And if you want to commit suicide, they are thrilled and ready to assist you with suicide drugs and contraptions.

And all of this fits in with their statements that humanity must vanish to “save the earth”.

The DemonicRATS do indeed hate human life and they are a death cult.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 8:22:27 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Morgana

The comment that 10 percent of Americans know of the abortion pill is, at the very least, misleading. What is the denominator: all Americans including children and seniors or all American adults? A better denominator would be females of child bearing age.


13 posted on 08/29/2025 8:23:20 AM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: Morgana

I thought USPS can’t send medications. How can they get these plls forwarded?

U can’t wait for the lawsuits from women saying this “health information nonprofit” misinformed them by failing to say that using this after 12 weeks could result in giving birth to an intact baby that they have to watch die and dispose of.


14 posted on 08/29/2025 8:25:25 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

It was founded in 2022 by Olivia Raisner, Nathaniel Horwitz, and Sam Koppelman in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson.

A tranny (female to male), and men, one a journalist, the other a biotech.


15 posted on 08/29/2025 8:35:44 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: DesertRhino

Amen, bro.


16 posted on 08/29/2025 8:43:12 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana
Why rural gas stations?

They've reached critical mass in the urban areas. In many inner cities, more babies are aborted than are born.

They have come to realize ,(perhaps subconsciously), that they are minimizing future Liberals by aborting them so now it's time to make a go of it in rural areas, which tend to be more Conservative, in or to level the playing field.

17 posted on 08/29/2025 9:01:12 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana
And with clinics closed, reproductive baby-killing options became very limited for women across the United States.
18 posted on 08/29/2025 9:01:36 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Morgana
"ad placement at 104 rural gas stations in Kentucky and West Virginia."

Seems like the gas stations would get complaints and lose a lot of business.

19 posted on 08/29/2025 9:24:38 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Morgana

Libsocs aiming for what they consider the “dumb whites”, apparently.


20 posted on 08/29/2025 9:59:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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