A report published last week by The Telegraph shows that the United Kingdom has been sending funds to Las Libres, a Mexican organization responsible for illegally sending the abortion pill into the United States.
According to the exposé, the UK’s Foreign Office’s development budget has sent £5 million to the Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) since 2019, which in turn funds Las Libres.
Las Libres was founded in 2000 as an activist group focused on promoting abortion in the traditionally pro-life country of Mexico. Since the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, it has been running a “shadow” network to smuggle abortion pills to US states where abortion is illegal. By the beginning of 2023, the group claimed it had helped facilitate 20,000 abortions, with the number “growing and growing.”
Veronica Sanchez, the founder of Las Libres, has said that the UK money was not used for US abortion pill distribution. “For our work in the US, to support access to safe abortions, donations come directly from individuals in the US civilian population,” she said.
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Of course, there is no such thing as “safe” abortion, especially when it comes to the abortion pill, which has been found to be four times more dangerous than a first-trimester surgical abortion. Additional risks occur when the pill is taken without a doctor’s oversight — which is exactly what Las Libres tries to skirt with its mail-order scheme. The group also encourages women who do experience complications from the abortion pill to lie to their doctors and hide their abortion if they are experiencing excessive bleeding and need medical attention, further putting them at risk.
A Foreign Office spokesperson also told The Telegraph that no UK taxpayer money was used to fund the abortion organization’s work in the United States because the funding could only be used in developing countries.
“UK aid cannot be spent in non-eligible countries and no UK taxpayers’ money was used in the US,” the spokesperson said. Instead, the aid money is used to abort the babies of migrant women in Mexico.
These statements are meant to appease anyone who may be uneasy with UK aid funding US abortions, however, they don’t erase the fact that the money is still being used to kill preborn children. Migrant women in Mexico don’t need abortion any more than American women do. Funding would be better spent to provide women the support they need to parent their children — not kill them.
