Rarely do Students for Life of America (SFLA) and Planned Parenthood agree on anything abortion-related. It would be like water and oil mixed seamlessly. But once in a blue moon, Planned Parenthood is forced to admit that the pro-life movement was right.  

This “miraculous” admission was spurred by a breaking and tragic story out of Pennsylvania. In May 2024, a mother reportedly took Chemical Abortion Pills ordered online after being turned away from a Planned Parenthood facility for being too far along in her pregnancy. She reportedly took the deadly pill cocktail and buried her dead child after the abortion. In March 2025, the tragedy was discovered. Reportedly, no charges have yet to be filed.  

Local NBC station WRAL 8 did a thorough report on the situation, not just in terms of the facts, but the devastating reality of abortion for this mom and her preborn child. According to WRAL 8’s reporting, “According to police, the witness told them the suspect took the (Chemical Abortion Pills) on May 9, 2024. The next day, texts between the two indicated it worked, saying ‘it just now came out.’ 

Documents state the witness also received pictures, including one showing the baby in what looks like a white trash bag. The remains were recovered from the backyard of a home on Village Square Drive in East Donegal Township on March 6.” (emphasis added)

Unsafe for Mother and Preborn Child 

Considering this horrific story and connection to the mother’s local abortion vendor, Planned Parenthood Keystone, Casi Scully, the associate medical director at Planned Parenthood Keystone, made a shocking statement admitting that ordering online Chemical Abortion Pills isn’t safe.  

“If you’re accessing medication and you’re not sure where it’s coming from, it’s maybe not regulated,” Scully stated. “You don’t know exactly what it is. That can definitely be a problem. Potential complications can be bleeding, infection, those kinds of things. Again, they’re very rare, but it is a potential concern.” (emphasis added)  

So, did this tragic story force Planned Parenthood to disavow online Chemical Abortion Pill pushers?

Well, kinda.

While she’s wrong about complications being “very rare,” Scully is right about one thing: Chemical Abortion Pills aren’t regulated properly.  

How can it be when the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) loosened REM (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) standards in 2016 and 2021, and the prior Biden-Harris Administration launched the No Test, Online Distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills during COVID-19? Not to mention how easy it is to order Chemical Abortion Pills online with no need for ID or pregnancy verification.  

READ: If You Can Get Starbucks & a Big Mac, You Can Get The Pill 

What you get is a health disaster, which Scully doesn’t seem to understand, given her stated belief that complications are “very rare.”  

As SFLA has reported previously regarding the common physical and mental side effects of Chemical Abortion Pills:  

“Physical complications, including profuse bleeding, blot clots, body shakes, nausea, diarrhea, uncontrollable sweating, fever, and chills are common symptoms.   

Since 2000, the FDA has reported 4,207 adverse events, 1,045 hospitalizations, 603 transfusions, 413 infections, and 97 ectopic pregnancies.” 

A recent study for the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) found that any abortion, whether surgical or chemical, will increase the chance of an Emergency Room (ER) visit within 30 days of the abortion. 

LEARN MORE: 10 Reasons to Add Chemical Abortion Pills to Your HATE List – Students for Life of America 

Let’s also not forget the story of a Georgia mom who allegedly died after aborting her twins with Chemical Abortion Pills. The FDA has also reported 30 deaths from these lethal drugs, and who knows how many more deaths have gone unreported.  

We’d be missing a massive piece of the puzzle if we didn’t mention the devastating mental damage from abortion. Studies show that abortive women are 81% more likely to experience emotional deterioration, including depression, PTSD, insomnia or night terrors, loss of self-confidence, relationship issues, isolation, substance abuse (alcohol or drugs), and suicide.   

Many women who take Chemical Abortion Pills have to see their preborn child’s lifeless body. For this mother, the alleged text messages between her and a witness paint the horrific realization that her “clump of cells” was a real human being. Look at WRAL 8’s text timeline: 

   “   — ‘it just now came out’ 

      — ‘and it’s like a full baby’ 

      — ‘and it’s still moving’ 

The mother sends a picture of the baby with the umbilical cord and placenta in what appears to be a white trash bag. 

The mother continues to send texts to the witness: 

       — ‘and we kept the baby’ 

       — ‘in a liytle box’ 

       — ‘so we can bury it’ 

The witness asked if the child cried. The mother responded, “yeah we both did when it moved.” 

The mother also texted: 

      — ‘it has fingernails’ 

      — ‘and lips’ 

      — ‘and a nose'”

She reportedly kept it in a box under her bed for two to three weeks before burying her child, showing the emotional toll it took on her and undermining the abortion industry’s tired and tried line that abortion is “empowering.”

READ: “I Scooped My Baby Out of the Toilet and Kept it in a Box for Years:” Girl Recounts the Horrors of Her Coerced Toilet Bowl Abortion 

It’s not empowering. It’s devastating.  

Unsafe for the Environment 

Talked about even less by the mainstream media is the devastating effect Chemical Abortion Pills have on the environment.  

With every Chemical Abortion Pill taken, preborn children are flushed down the toilet along with chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, polluting America’s waterways with PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals,’ which could cause serious health issues in humans, fish, and animals.  

Mishandling human remains and medical waste, much like this mother did when she buried her child, can lead to severe consequences from improperly disposed remains that can contaminate our water.

The World Health Organization (WHO) notes: “The disposal of untreated health care wastes in landfills can lead to the contamination of drinking, surface, and ground waters if those landfills are not properly constructed.”  

The American Academy of Family Physicians, in discussing Medical Waste disposal in non-medical locations, notes: “Home based health care can create medical waste which can be hazardous if not disposed properly. Inappropriate medical waste disposal can pose harmful environmental concerns and significant health risks to the public, which include but are not limited to, potential water contamination, inadvertent sharp-stick injuries, and toxic exposure to pharmaceutical products. The AAFP encourages practices to keep all medical and non-medical waste separate to avoid contamination and to facilitate safe disposal of all medical waste. The importance of routine medical waste disposal and destruction practices should be stressed at all city and county levels of collection.” (emphasis added)  

SFLA has submitted four petitions to the FDA demanding better for our environment, including adding Red Bag Medical Waste requirements to reduce Chemical Abortion Pill pollution, restoring high health and safety standards (known as REMS – Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) to protect women’s lives, completing studies to ensure protection for endangered species, and complying with the Clean Water Act by requiring protection for water, especially recreational water.

READ: Students for Life of America Demands the FDA Refrain from Re-Labeling Chemical Abortion Pills for Other Uses At LEAST Until They Comply with Laws Designed to Protect Clean Drinking Water & the Environment

This Pennsylvania tragedy is something that happens to thousands of preborn children through Chemical Abortion Pills. Still, this one specifically prompted a Planned Parenthood worker to admit the dangers of online and unregulated Chemical Abortion Pill shopping.

Will this be tragic story be another building block to end online Chemical Abortion Pill distribution? SFLA sure hopes so.

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