Contributor: ATTWN Staff
While abortion is nearly banned in Texas and several other states, it is exceptionally easy to order abortion pills online, with no doctor interactions, no proof of pregnancy, no proof of age, and no money.
In efforts to see how easy the process really is, Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director and founder of And Then There Were None and ProLove Ministries, released a video today of her ordering abortion pills where she was not asked about her age, not given the opportunity to speak to a doctor, and reading through directions that can be detrimental to women if they follow them.
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“Abortion isn’t truly banned anywhere in the United States, no matter what anyone is telling you,” said Abby Johnson. “If a woman wants to obtain an abortion, she can. And she can do it without any actual medical consultation, at any age, and without any money. As a pro-life movement, we need to stand in the gap of her wanting to get that abortion and seeing that there is true help and assistance available to her.”
Two of the more alarming aspects of the video are: 1) that anyone of any age or gender can obtain abortion pills and 2) that the instructions for taking the pills can lead to severe side effects for women. There are several stories of men causing abortions in their partners by covertly slipping mothers the abortion pills to shirk the responsibilities of parenting.
“If women want to rail against the patriarchy, they should rail against the easy access of abortion pills that give men easy control of their partners and predators easy access to cover their crimes,” said Johnson.
The other aspect is the directions for using misoprostol. A regular dose is 800 mcg to expel the baby after taking the first pill, mifepristone, which cuts off progesterone from the growing fetus. The instructions from this online abortion pill company are to take the initial dose of 800 mcg and then, three hours later, take another 400 mcg and then another 400 mcg three hours later.
“That’s an extremely high dose of misoprostol and can cause serious side effects, including uterine rupture. The chance of this is higher during the second semester- women may not even know they are past the first trimester and take the high dose, putting themselves in danger,” said Johnson.
Johnson recalls her own at-home medication abortion prescribed by Planned Parenthood. “It was a bloodbath. My bathroom became an abortion clinic, where I delivered and saw my baby. I remember thinking, ‘This is how I’m going to die.’ Afterward, I had to live at the scene of the crime.”
The largest study of women who took the abortion pill, which was released in April 2025, reveals that 1 in 10 women suffer ‘severe adverse events’ such as sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection or another severe effect within 45 days of taking the pills, according to the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
“The majority of abortions today are done using the abortion pill and the answer to eliminating abortion as an option is complicated because it is more than criminalizing abortions – it’s a cultural change, which is an immensely difficult thing to change,” said Johnson. “Creating a culture that values motherhood, children, and families is crucial. Men stepping up to become fathers of the children they’ve helped to create, writing and passing laws that give women the time off they need from work, and making childcare affordable are all ways to create this culture that values life and helps women to see abortion as the horror it truly is.”