Illegal campaign to promote Misoprostol abortions suffers major setback in Peru
by Carlos Polo
For some years now, the abortion movement has been setting
up so-called “safe abortion hotlines” in Latin American countries, and
secretly (and illegally) advertising them on the internet. In Peru, the
offensive website was under the domain of Blogspot, and it relentlessly
promoted abortion. Women who visited the site looking for help were
instead given encouragement to break the law and to perform a dangerous
and illegal chemical abortion on themselves by obtaining and ingesting
Misoprostol from a local pharmacy.
At least, this is where matters stood until PRI launched a
campaign against the website. As a result, hundreds of Peruvian citizens
filed complaints with Blogspot to shut down the website. After
hesitating for some months, Blogspot finally acted. It shut down the
site on the grounds that it was violating Blogspot policy by promoting
drugs, in this case an illegal drug. If you type in the site’s one-time
address at http://lineabortoinfosegura.
This is a significant victory because this website was the
primary means of advertising and promoting the so-called "safe abortion
hotline." And the hotline in turn was the chief means by which the
abortion movement was attempting promote, perform, and legalize
abortions in pro-life Peru.
Like many Latin American constitutions, the Peruvian
constitution defines life as beginning at conception. Abortion remains
illegal. And any attempt to advertise abortion services on television,
radio, or in the newspapers is quickly shut down by the authorities.
This is why the international abortion collective has
invested so much time and energy into anonymous “hotlines” and remotely
run websites in Latin America. And it is also why its chemical
abortifacient of choice is Misoprostol, which can be used to initiate
early-term abortions in secret, but which must then be completed—on the
grounds that the woman is suffering a “natural miscarriage”—in
government-run clinics and hospitals.
In fact, we at PRI believe that this strategy is being
deliberately used, not just to carry out thousands of clandestine
abortions, but with the broader goal of subverting pro-life laws
throughout Latin America. That is to say, the international abortion
movement hopes to make abortion by Misoprostol so common in countries
like Peru that the legalization of all abortions will necessarily follow
this cultural shift. We see something similar happening with the
legalization of marijuana in some American states.
Such pro-abortion blogs and hotlines are promoted
internationally by the Collective of Free Information for Women (CLIM)
and by Women on Waves, itself notorious for providing shipboard
abortions offshore of countries where abortions are prohibited. But
their efforts are supported by nearly all major pro-abortion and radical
feminist organizations, which have come together in the Latin American Consortium Against Unsafe Abortion.
In short, by taking down the site, we have at the same time
taken away from the international abortion movement its primary way of
promoting abortion in Peru. The site will no longer encourage women to
abort their unborn children. It will no longer give information about
how to obtain and use Misoprostol to end pregnancy. At the same time,
we at PRI are working hard to help women in crisis pregnancies in Peru.
And hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children will live.
The pro-life Population Research Institute is dedicated to ending human rights abuses committed in the name of "family planning," and to ending counter-productive social and economic paradigms premised on the myth of "overpopulation." Find us at pop.org.
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