U.S. May Shut Down Postal Subsidies for Illegal Abortion Drugs from Overseas

By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.
Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam)

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26 (C-Fam) President Donald Trump recently announced the U.S. pull-out from a little-known UN agency that sets standards for international postal issues.

Besides the shipment of counterfeit products from China into the U.S., the issue included the U.S. subsidizing Chinese shipments of the deadly drug fentanyl into the hands of U.S. addicts.

In the same way, illegal abortion drugs may be making their way through the U.S. Postal Service into the U.S. Advocates have created a website called Aid Access offering abortion-causing drugs by mail to women in the U.S.

Similar operations have been working for years to ship abortion drugs to countries in which abortion is illegal or heavily restricted. As the drugs bound for the United States are sent from a supplier in India, the same type of postal subsidies that facilitate the import of fentanyl from China may be enabling the cheap import of misoprostol and mifepristone for abortions.

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