Fri Aug 26, 2022 – 3:56 pm EDTFri Aug 26, 2022 – 3:58 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The online sale of unauthorized abortion pills is “booming” since the fall of Roe v. Wade, according to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal.
WSJ reported that numerous websites offering abortion pills without prescriptions have popped up in the wake of June’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe and restoring states’ ability to make their own abortion laws.
The sites’ credentials are questionable at best; some are registered in countries such as Kazakhstan, India, and Australia, and others list associations with individuals and pharmaceutical manufacturers that say they have no knowledge of or affiliation with them. But their overseas nature means they are beyond the reach of American laws, such as federal statutes making it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to distribute the means of abortion via U.S. mail.
However, while that means most of the websites are likely safe from legal jeopardy, recipients in the United States could still be exposing themselves to prosecution. More significantly, they would be assuming significant medical risks – there’s no guarantee what pills women would actually be
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