Prairie State Wire

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America has voiced strong opposition to an abortion pill delivery service "app" launched by Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region.   

The pro-life group argues that the app's remote nature—where users can order abortion pills and have them delivered to their doors—could facilitate coercion or abuse, labeling it as a form of “abortion drug poisoning” and a danger to women's health and safety.

“Abortion drug poisoning is a new form of domestic violence,” Kelsey Pritchard, state public affairs director for SBA Pro-Life America, told Prairie State Wire.

“By creating a faceless, doctorless process to obtain abortion drugs, Planned Parenthood is enabling abusers to poison or coerce women and girls. A least three states—Texas, Florida and Massachusetts—have seen cases of third parties attempting to poison women with abortion drugs.”

The Planned Parenthood app allows pregnant patients up to 10 weeks with an Illinois mailing address to utilize the app, streamlining the process through a simple screening form for medication delivery within 24 hours.

“These drugs not only end the lives of millions of unborn children, but they also pose a risk to the mother who takes them. Abortion drugs send approximately one in 25 women to the ER according to the FDA’s own label,” Pritchard said. “These drugs can cause hemorrhaging and the need for emergency surgery, and have been responsible for the deaths of women.”

State Rep. Adam Niemerg (R-Dieterich) has been a vocal opponent of the Planned Parenthood application, raising concerns about the absence of parental involvement. “It's something that I don't like hearing, just because it's a situation where it's just abortion on demand without any thought, and that's something we really need to reconsider in the state of Illinois," he told Fox News Illinois. 

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America applauded Niemerg’s comments. 

“Rep Niemerg is right to be concerned,” Pritchard said. “Planned Parenthood wants to eliminate parents from getting in the way of their profit motive and this abortion drug dispensing app is just the latest example. Illinois parents must stand on guard and talk to their daughters about the dangers of abortion drugs.” 

Illinois Right to Life Action has also criticized the app for trivializing a serious decision.

“PSA for IL residents: @PPAdvocates_IL  debuts app-dispensed abortion drugs it touts as ‘completely free of face to face interaction with a clinician.’  You read that right – PP's Colleen McNicholas names *lack of interaction with a doctor* as a positive,” SBA Pro-Life America said in a post on X. 

The move by Planned Parenthood comes after the Missouri legislature passed a bill that blocks the organization from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.