Abortion activists have always been hesitant to admit that their actions may be illegal, but one of them may have just said the quiet part out loud. 

Plan C describes itself as a “public health creative campaign… calling for universal access to abortion pills.” In other words, it’s a marketing agency meant to glorify and promote the killing of babies. 

According to a Slate article published earlier this week, Plan C itself estimates that 100,000 or more people a year obtain their Chemical Abortion Pills through “channels that bypass the U.S. regulatory system.” That’s marketing speak for “illegally.” 

That 100,000 number amounts to nearly 10 percent of reported abortion “patients” — but both numbers are likely much higher. There is no national abortion reporting law, meaning no one really knows just how many abortions take place in the U.S. every year. Nor does an abortion apologist have any incentive to accurately count just how many abortions occur illegally. The reality is likely much, much darker than Plan C is willing to admit. 

But the fact that abortions are being obtained illegally wasn’t the only “quiet part” said out loud in the Slate article. 

The article, centered on a potential future of Chemical Abortion Pills if in-person mifepristone dispensing is restored, reads, “Abortion providers have spent the four years since the end of Roe building a robust infrastructure of websites, hotlines, and organizational partnerships to help people find their way to these unregulated outlets, with the knowledge that the abortion-rights landscape could shift at any moment.” 

Slate then quotes Elisa Wells, co-founder and access director at Plan C: “’We could see the political restriction of care coming, and we are prepared for it.’” 

In other words: Illegal or not, abortion vendors plan on continuing to ship Chemical Abortion Pills. 

For most people, it’s only worth violating the law when it comes to practicing one’s religion. But apparently, killing babies is a cause worth breaking the law for. 

This Slate article reaffirms what we’ve known for years: Abortion vendors are breaking the law, and they won’t stop until someone makes them. It’s long past time for the federal government to start enforcing the Comstock Act, which bans the mailing of abortion materials and enacts criminal penalties for those who do. Otherwise, the unregulated mass mailing of deadly pills will undoubtedly continue. 

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