UK Government funding has been used by an abortion activist group in Mexico that illegally sends abortion pills to the US, it has been reported.
Since 2019, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has given £5 million to a UK-based group calling itself the Safe Abortion Action Fund, which distributes money to pro-abortion organisations worldwide including Las Libres in Mexico.
Across the US, an estimated 8,000 women a month access abortion pills which are banned in their state. Las Libres reportedly advises women in states where the drugs are illegal to use encrypted communications to order the drugs by post.
‘Trauma’
In the UK, more than 12,000 people have signed a petition urging the Government to stop the pills-by-post abortion scheme.
The scheme was first introduced as a temporary measure during the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. It eliminated the requirement of a face-to-face consultation with a medical professional, or for the pills to be taken in a supervised medical setting.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children launched the petition, citing the case of a man who was convicted last year for deliberately poisoning a woman with abortion pills to kill her 15-week-old baby.
The petition warned that if DIY abortions continue, “women will continue to face unnecessary emotional trauma, medical complications, and coercion. Continuing without safeguards will normalise unsafe practices, devalue life, and perpetuate harm”.
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