Want to Crack Down on Drug Trafficking? Target the Abortion Drug Cartel | The American Spectator

President Donald Trump’s steadfast resolve to protect the American people from dangerous drugs deserves praise.

His administration’s decisive action to attack the cartels smuggling illicit narcotics into our country sends a clear message: The United States once again has a president who puts American lives first.

But fentanyl and cocaine aren’t the only harmful drugs being trafficked illegally into and across the United States. The abortion drug mifepristone is poisoning American babies and their mothers at an alarming rate — even in states where abortion is all but banned. (RELATED: The Nation Must Face the Abortion Pill Legal Monster)

In fact, an online black market has evolved for the express purpose of facilitating illegal abortions in the United States via mail, and the malign foreign and domestic actors behind it continue to operate unchecked.

This is not about “choice.” This is a direct assault on American families.

At this very moment, around the country, both women and men are stockpiling abortion drugs that studies have shown to inflict serious harm on more than one in 10 women. Side effects may include hemorrhage, uterine rupture, infection, or even death, yet anyone can now order these pills without even consulting a physician — or the person intended to take them. (RELATED: Texas Might Be the Only State Strong Enough to Face Real Evil)

In Louisiana, a woman allegedly coerced her pregnant teenage daughter into taking abortion pills she obtained via mail from a telehealth abortionist in New York. The drugs not only succeeded in killing the unborn child but also landed the teen in the emergency room with life-threatening complications.

Other cases have cropped up in Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Florida involving alleged plots to poison unsuspecting women with abortion drugs to kill their unborn babies.

These crimes were enabled by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision under President Joe Biden to nix its previous requirement that women obtain abortion drugs in person from their doctors. Without that vital safeguard, there is no way for those dispensing these pills to confirm that those taking them even wish to do so, let alone are taking them safely.

And to be clear, unless an ultrasound is performed, it is not safe to take these drugs. The chemical abortion regimen, which consists of mifepristone and misoprostol pills, will only successfully terminate intrauterine pregnancies. Embryos that have implanted elsewhere — an uncommon but life-threatening condition called ectopic pregnancy — will not be affected, though the drugs’ side effects may mislead a woman into believing her child was aborted. If an ectopic pregnancy goes undetected for too long, the consequences could be fatal.

Those pushing these pills know the risks. But as with the narco-terrorists south of the border, the abortion drug cartel doesn’t concern itself with the lives it ruins.

Take the Austria-based abortion vigilante group Aid Access, for example. The service’s stated goal is to “improve the health status and human rights of women.” Yet according to two federal lawsuits, the group has done the exact opposite, smuggling abortion pills to abusers who then use them to harm women and their children.

Texas man Jerry Rodriguez filed the first lawsuit in July, identifying Aid Access as the source of the abortion drugs that his girlfriend’s estranged husband pressured her into taking, killing Rodriguez’s unborn child. The second complaint, filed in August, accuses Aid Access of providing Marine pilot Christopher Cooprider with abortion pills, with which he allegedly poisoned plaintiff Liana Davis, causing her to hemorrhage and her unborn baby girl to die.

Abortion is illegal in Texas, except when deemed necessary to save a mother’s life (a situation that doesn’t actually exist). But the law is just a nuisance to abortion drug traffickers, a minor obstacle on the path to their perverted form of justice.

Nearly 10,000 illegal abortions per month are being facilitated by these illicit operations, according to the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning’s recent #WeCount report. With the help of blue-state shield laws that serve to protect the culprits, the abortion drug cartel is delivering dangerous drugs directly to American doorsteps.

Their vision is a world where the nuclear family no longer exists—and they’re getting close.

A 2023 Pew Research study found that in 1970, just three years before Roe v. Wade, 67 percent of Americans ages 25 to 49 lived with a spouse and at least one child. By 2021, that share had dropped to just 37 percent.

The pro-family Trump administration has every reason to stop the abortion drug traffickers contributing to that decline. Yet aside from promising a review of mifepristone’s safety — a pledge that appears to have been merely performative — administration officials haven’t even acknowledged the rising wave of abortion crime.

It’s not from a lack of awareness. State attorneys general and Republicans on Capitol Hill have been sounding the alarm about mifepristone for months.

The administration also has plenty of tools at its disposal to end the injustice today. The Comstock Act, for one, has already outlawed mailing abortion-inducing drugs and materials. The 1873 law, long sidelined by Roe, has been fully enforceable since the Supreme Court overturned that moral and legal travesty in 2022.

But if enforcing the law is too much to ask, the FDA could simply reinstate its former restrictions to require a doctor’s visit to obtain abortion pills.

Unfortunately, administration officials seem to have chosen a third route: the off-ramp.

It’s no secret that President Trump thinks abortion is a losing issue for the GOP. With the federal midterm elections next November, he is undoubtedly hoping to protect Republicans’ slim majorities in the House and Senate.

But there will always be another election on the horizon. Once the midterms are over, the focus will shift to the 2028 presidential election, and so on, entrapping the American people in an endless cycle of empty “next time” promises.

The truth is that if we are ever to succeed in making America, as the president likes to say, “greater than ever before,” human rights must matter more than politics.

Every life the abortion drug cartel is allowed to take is another future American family wiped from existence. Who knows how many would-be doctors, scientists, pastors, or even U.S. presidents have already been killed?

The power to save future generations of American leaders is within the president’s grasp, and history will judge what he does with it. Will he join the ranks of our heroic forefathers who — unpopularly — launched a revolution, ended slavery, and set a still-unmet national goal of “liberty and justice for all”? Or will he allow those who traffic in death to mar his chapter of American history?

The time to decide is now.

READ MORE from Samantha Flom:

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Samantha Flom is a senior investigative researcher for Restoration News and author of Pill Pushers: How a Dark Political Agenda Made Abortion More Dangerous Than Ever.