Protecting LIFE since 1973

 Jenna Gibson - 11 Nov 2024

We all know law enforcement trains dogs to sniff out narcotics, but did you know that includes sniffing out Chemical Abortion Pills, too?  

A heartwarming story from The Intercept about a local U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Jackson, Mississippi, proves that dogs are a woman AND baby’s best friend. Rip, a German Shepherd police K-9, sniffed out illegal abortion pills being illegally trafficked and brought across our border from India, labeled “AntiPreg Kit.” 

A USPS worker reported someone stuffing pills into a pink envelope, and not too long after, Officer Steed and his K-9 dog, Rip, arrived on the scene.

“Rip strode around and, when he got to the pink envelope, sat down. According to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, Steed said this meant the dog had smelled narcotics. That claim became evidence to get a warrant to open the envelope,” wrote Debbie Nathan of The Intercept. 

“This, though, was no ordinary drug bust. As it turned out, there were pills inside the package, but they were not the kind that Rip or other police K-9s are trained to detect. The envelope contained five pills labeled ‘AntiPreg Kit.'”

Chemical Abortion Pills make up approximately 63% of all abortions, and sadly, abortion by mail is all too common. Not only are these drugs dangerous, causing injury, infertility, and death, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the importation of foreign-made misoprostol or mifepristone pills. Not only is this allowing a route for dangerous, unapproved drugs, but also their distribution without a prescription. Can you imagine a future where women are dying from this foreign drug trade of abortion pills? Sadly, this fear is likely to become a reality. Thanks to Rip, though, they stopped these pills in their tracks.  

Especially after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, abortion activists showed their willingness to traffic pills no matter the cost, even the cost of women’s lives. Dealers smuggle these pills across the border in bulk, commonly passing through customs and airports, often enabled by feminist aid groups doing it in secret. They use generic labels and repackage them to disguise their contents, which are then distributed for free or at a low cost.  

The “budget friendly” cost of the painful death of preborn lives being snuffed from their mother’s wombs. Chemical Abortion Pills consist of two pills: mifepristone and misoprostol. The first starves the baby, and the second pill induces contractions to abort the starved baby, who later flushed down the toilet. This deadly concoction kills children and at the expense of putting women in physically and mentally dangerous situations. Chemical abortions are over 50% more likely than surgical abortions to result in an ER visit, according to a Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) study. These drugs have cost 24 women their lives, and they would still be here if these drugs were regulated more and, even better, made illegal.  

“Online, No Test Distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills, which are now stripped of almost all Health and Safety Regulations (known as REMS – Risk, Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) – is reckless,” said SFLA Vice President of Media and Policy Kristi Hamrick in a recent article discussing the Georgia mom and her preborn twins who died from Chemical Abortion Pills. “Three Democratic Party Presidents – Clinton, Obama, and Biden – forced the pills onto the U.S. market with fewer and fewer protections for the women and girls exposed to them.” This careless endangerment of women and babies should be unspeakable and a “no-brainer” for getting these pills off the market. A dangerous drug that harms women and kills children should never be so hastily shipped around without any regulations or doctor consultations.  

However, thanks to Rip and his handler, these deadly pills can be sniffed out in the mail, giving hope that these authorities can protect more women and babies from these pills. Due to Steed, the dog handler, and Rip’s hard work in this case, they were “recently deputized as a USPIS investigator, and he uses office space in the agency’s regional headquarters at the Jackson postal center,” according to The Intercept.

Abortion pills are medically hazardous, and they’ll continue to be unless the abortion industry is truly willing to put women’s lives first and stand against the lack of policies regarding unregulated pills coming across our border in BULK and being pushed by these feminist groups illegally. As a society, we need to do more to protect women and their bodies, not enabling their self-harm with illegal abortion drugs. 

Maybe Rip’s story will encourage law enforcement to keep sniffing illegal abortion drugs out, protecting people, born and preborn.

You can find this story on the Students For Life website.