Population control backers helping to drive women toward abortion pill

Population control and abortion 'philanthropists' are funding the nonprofit organization behind a website connecting abortion seekers to abortion pill providers — despite state laws prohibiting the mailing of abortion drugs.

The website and several of its linked abortion pill providers and referral services have been named in an abortion pill-related lawsuit which asserts that federal law is being broken and that states have the right to regulate abortion.

Key Takeaways:

• The nonprofit organization behind an abortion pill referral website is heavily funded by various wealthy foundations connected to population control and/or abortion.

• This website, AbortionFinder.org, refers women for abortion in multiple states despite knowing that abortion is 'banned' in those states.

• Several of the abortion pill providers to which the website refers are named in an ongoing abortion pill-related lawsuit.

The Details:

The website AbortionFinder.org claims to be "a team of advocates, public health experts, researchers, designers, and engineers" who are "committed to making sure that everyone who needs help finding an abortion can access our comprehensive, nationwide database of abortion providers."

The abortion referral website states online that it is “operated by Bedsider, a project of the nonprofit Power to Decide. Bedsider is a digital platform that provides information about birth control, sex, and sexual health — basically everything you need to have a healthy, happy sex life."

Population Control (and Abortion) Partners

That nonprofit organization behind it all, Power to Decide , is funded by various groups that have historically supported global population control and/or abortion, including:

• Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (Warren Buffett)

• JPB Foundation (now known as the Freedom Together Foundation)

• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation

• Ford Foundation

The group's CEO, Raegan McDonald-Mosley, is a former Planned Parenthood medical director.

The website for AbortionFinder also notes that it is "made possible through partnerships with reproductive and sexual health organizations," naming:

• National Abortion Federation (NAF)

• Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)

• Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)

• Independent providers

• Providers affiliated with PPFA, NAF, and the Abortion Care Network (ACN)

"Many organizations and individuals have kindly lent the project their expertise and advice," the website claims.

Website Ignores State Abortion Restrictions

AbortionFinder.org listed multiple states where abortion is restricted, including 12 in which they claim there is a "total ban" on abortion (image below).

"Some telehealth abortion providers only serve specific states," the website stated. "Other telehealth abortion providers serve all 50 U.S. states and its territories. Depending on where you live, there may be some legal risk in getting abortion pills online." And yet, the site still referred potential abortion clients to "telehealth abortion providers that serve the U.S."

In the 12 states with "total bans" on abortion, according to the AbortionFinder.org website, potential abortion pill seekers were referred to the following providers:

A Safe Choice (through 12 weeks, 6 days) — "provides medication through a simple, yet safe and effective process" where "you may order pills securely online without engaging with a doctor." The website has been recruiting "doctors" from California and may also provide abortion pills in "advance" of an actual pregnancy (advance provision).

• According to the California Secretary of State, the founder of A Safe Choice (which has gone through a number of name changes) is Remy Coeytaux, a California physician who serves as the business' President/Chief Executive Officer.

• Coeytaux was recently named in the Rodriguez v. Coeytaux lawsuit and was sent a cease and desist order by the Texas Attorney General for shipping abortion pills into the state.

Abuzz (through 12 weeks, 6 days) — "serves all states except for Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia," AbortionFinder claimed. The mission of Abuzz is to "expand access to abortion."

• Abuzz tells abortion clients that its "providers" usually "do not require a phone/video call. If your provider has more questions, they will contact you via the portal." The group's privacy policy claims it is a "referral service" and "not a 'covered entity' under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).

• It informs clients that "clinicians offer abortion pills 'just in case' you do get pregnant."

• It claims that no longer "feeling pregnant" is a sign the pills worked, because "[p]regnancy tests can stay positive for up to 5 weeks after a successful abortion, so they are not reliable before that time. If you still feel pregnant, you should contact your abortion pill provider."

• Like many others, the website advises women to lie if presenting to the emergency room with an abortion pill complication.

Aid Access (through 13 weeks, 6 days) — international abortion pill dispensary based in the Netherlands and founded by Rebecca Gomperts.

• This group admits to ‘leveraging’ shield laws to exploit pro-life states.

• In 2024, the Arkansas Attorney General issued a cease-and-desist order to Aid Access, accusing the dispensary of “(1) advertising that abortion-inducing medical pills may legally be obtained in Arkansas, and (2) selling such pills to women within Arkansas."

• Aid Access was slapped with a wrongful death lawsuit for "the forced chemical abortion that killed the child of a Texas woman against her will," according to the Texas AG's cease and desist letter.

• Aid Access remains listed on the Arkansas and Texas pages of AbortionFinder.org.

Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants - The MAP (through 11 weeks) — co-founded by Dr. Angel M. Foster, who said its “ model is about distributing risk.”

• The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), which sells abortion pills via "Cash App, Zelle and Stripe" is a project of CRHC.

• MAP is member of the NAF and the ACN, according to its website. The group boasts a long list of "funders," including Ibis Reproductive Health — which launched medicationabortion.com with CRHC in 2003 — as well as the TARA Health Foundation.

• "The MAP has taken several protective steps. All of its prescribers are within Massachusetts. Pills are stocked and packaged at a separate location by workers hired by Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants," the New York Times reported.

Choices Rising (through 12 weeks) — tells clients that with "just a phone or computer, you can access professional abortion care at your fingertips."

• Claims there is "no need to have a telehealth consultation."

• To be "eligible," you need to be at "least 15 years old" and "[h]ave a mailing address in any US state or territory" — including the states that protect preborn children from abortion.

• Choices partners with the online abortion pill pharmacy HoneyBee Health, among others.

We Take Care of US (through 12 weeks, 6 days) — affiliated with NAF, Ineedana, Plan C ,and others.

• On the group's "terms" page, it writes under "Agreement":

On acceptance by a User, these Terms constitute a binding agreement between Abuzz and the User...

Providers may be Certified Nurse Midwives, Physicians or other Licensed Providers (such as nurse practitioners) registered to practice their profession in a state, province or other jurisdiction.

• Under "dispute resolution" the website's terms also claim that abortion clients:

AGREE TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT (INCLUDING IN A CLASS ACTION PROCEEDING) to assert or defend your rights under these Terms of Use. Your rights will be determined by a PROFESSIONAL MEDIATOR and NOT a judge or jury and your claims cannot be brought as a class action" and all disputes must be addressed to "CSA ACS LLC, FIVE GREENTREE CENTRE, 525 ROUTE 73 NORTH STE 104, MARLTON, NEW JERSEY 08053 [which appears to be a midwife group].

What's Happening:

Abuzz, Aid Access, CRHC, We Take Care of US, as well as AbortionFinder.org were all mentioned in an an ongoing abortion pill lawsuit in a motion to intervene request filed by the states of Florida and Texas.

The states claimed that the drug's approval was 'political,' that states have the right to regulate abortion, and that federal law prohibits mailing abortion drugs. They also claimed that "inadequate adverse event reporting" has led to the undercounting of "true rates of risks associated with chemical abortion drugs," meaning that the risks are "therefore... unknown."

The federal “Comstock Act of 1873 prohibits the carriage in interstate commerce of any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion.