The Underground Network of Abortion Meds is in High Gear

The "War on Drugs" employed thousands of people. All of them were stamping out sources of illegal drugs. I'm not sure anyone knows how many billions of dollars were spent or how many lives were lost in murders and shoot outs. I don't think anyone disputes the War on Drugs was a total failure. Now many of the drugs we were at "war" with are legal.

So it was a sad but almost amusing that the Catholic Clergy and Protestant right thought it could abolish abortion by appointing religious zealots to the Supreme Court. Roe has been eliminated. But an industry sprung up almost out of nowhere smuggling abortion pills from Mexico into the U.S.  The pills are paid for by donors, drug store chains and pharmaceutical companies. The two latter have to destroy meds approaching their "sell by" dates. They instead give them to the underground.

Phone numbers of women's rights groups in Mexico are made available all over the U.S. Women in Mexico answer the phones and fill the orders. The pills travel privately to the border. Over one hundred volunteers walk them across into the U.S. Once in the U.S. a network moves them to women who need them. 

The women in Mexico say they used to get about 10 calls a day from the U.S. Now they get 100. While this story is about one dispensing group, my guess is it is not the only one.

One aspect of this story in the New York Times is the underground network is run by women. I'm wondering if this presents a different challenge for law enforcement and the court system.

Another twist is that both elders and young women must remind each other not to go to doctors or least doctors plugged into the health care system. Some doctors are already being asked to keep lists of pregnant women so they can be tracked by law enforcement or vigilantes. Both medical services and pharmaceuticals they are going underground. That is what happened before Roe.