Memphis Pregnancy Center Demonstrates Easy Access To Abortion Pills In Tennessee

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The Tennessee Conservative [By Olivia Lupia] –

A Memphis-based pregnancy resource center posted a video showing just how easy it is to obtain abortion pills in Tennessee, despite the state’s relatively stringent restrictions on surgical and in-clinic abortions, and discussing the serious risks those drugs can carry.

Life Choices of Memphis offers free resources, counseling, and certain medical assistance or treatments for pregnant women, including connecting them to an abortion reversal program for those who regret taking abortifacients. They also provide post abortive help, adoption plans and counseling, help with practical needs, and resources specifically for men like fatherhood education and post abortive support groups.  

In helping to demonstrate how mail order abortion is not actually healthcare, Rachel Davis, Director of Community Relations for Life Choices, revealed the contents of an abortion pill package given to the center by a patient who chose to reverse her abortion. Her video exposes what was included in the package, and perhaps more alarming, what was not.

The first red flag of the package was its return address, which proved to be a branch of the public library in Los Angeles, yet the postmark showed Santa Clarita, an area more than an hour away from the address. There was also no copy of the original prescription in the package, which violates federal guidelines for mailing prescriptions.

But of greater concern was the fact that the package did not include any kind of instructions, nor was the patient’s name on any of the materials. Instead, the patient was told she needed to just find some instructions online from the pill manufacturer to print. 

Additionally, none of the packaging was properly sealed or tamper-resistant, and the pills themselves were just tucked between two nonsterile cotton rounds without any imprints to indicate their type or designation.

Life Choices’ nurses examined the pills and determined there were far more than would be necessary for a proper dosage, another dangerous discovery, especially as there was no guidance included on who to contact were there to be an issue taking the drugs.

Davis noted the center has seen a 160% increase in abortion pill reversals through the year, in large part because women who receive the drugs in the mail are realizing the dangers associated with taking such unregulated and unmarked tablets.

“So, when we talk about who is to blame, the abortion industry is not interested in healthcare. They are interested in making money and taking the lives of the unborn, and they don’t care if they take the lives of the women as well,” she said. “Our pregnancy centers are having to work harder than ever to combat things like this.”

She also pointed to the Biden administration’s removal of all safeguards around abortion pills being sent through the mail in 2021, claiming that women still needed access to these medications online during Covid.

“And now we’re seeing the repercussions of that. The safeguards around medicine were never put back in place around the abortion pill, and so we’re still seeing online pills coming from all over the place,” Davis elaborated.

Medicated abortions now comprise a majority of abortions, not just in Tennessee, but across the nation due to the ease of obtaining the drugs by mail and blue-state shield laws which protect abortion facilities and providers from legal action by states with abortion restrictions or bans. 

Roughly 60% of all abortions are now done through abortifacients, many of which can be purchased online from foreign countries and are shipped from overseas through a black market, attempting to subvert state laws and often causing more medical issues because they are inferior products or not or subject to US regulations. 

One international telehealth provider, Abortion Pills in Private, has vowed to continue providing mifepristone and misoprostol, the two main abortion-inducing drugs, to U.S.-based consumers, even if the FDA takes them off the market in the U.S. 

The organization has aided almost 3,500 U.S. women in obtaining abortions, with most of them living in states with abortion restrictions or bans, though they did note there were some requests from blue states. Using a “a simple, doctor-supervised telehealth model designed for easy access and confidentiality”, the group helps women kill their unborn child up to the 11^th week of pregnancy. 

“More and more women are coming to us confused, frightened, and unsure whether the pills they receive are illegitimate or safe. Life Choices of Memphis provides compassionate, accurate, no-cost care; and the need is growing,” the center wrote in a recent newsletter.

About the Author: Olivia Lupia is a political refugee from Colorado who now calls Tennessee home. A proud follower of Christ, she views all political happenings through a Biblical lens and aims to utilize her knowledge and experience to educate and equip others. Olivia is an outspoken conservative who has run for local office, managed campaigns, and been highly involved with state & local GOPs, state legislatures, and other grassroots organizations and movements. Olivia can be reached at olivia@tennesseeconservativenews.com.