Additionally, some international sellers make abortion drugs available to U.S. customers, including through unregulated online pharmacies and abortion centers. To provide an overview of the international component of abortion drugs in the United States, this article will discuss: 1) the manufacturing locations of abortion drugs that are legally distributed by U.S. abortion centers; 2) international abortion centers that mail drugs into the U.S.; 3) international online pharmacies that sell abortion drugs to U.S. customers; and 4) community networks that spread abortion drugs around the country. [26]International Online Abortion CentersOver the past decade, the abortion organization Aid Access has been a major source of international abortion drugs. Although Aid Access is now U.S.-based, it originated as an international abortion center designed to make abortion drugs available in the U.S. Dutch physician and abortion advocate Rebecca Gomperts founded Aid Access in 2018 to sell abortion drugs to American women. [35]Women on Web, also founded by Gomperts in 2005 to sell abortion drugs to women in locations where abortion is restricted,[36] began shipping abortion drugs to the United States as of July 2024.

Source: International New York Times January 14, 2026 14:59 UTC