The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists (AAPLOG) says it submitted a test order to Aid Access posing as a 13-year-old with multiple medical risk factors and received abortion medication by mail, raising questions about screening practices for online medication-abortion services.
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists (AAPLOG), an advocacy group that opposes abortion, says its CEO, Dr. Christina Francis, submitted an online request for abortion pills to Aid Access using information indicating the patient was 13 years old and had multiple potential medical red flags.
According to accounts published by The Daily Wire and other conservative outlets, the submission listed conditions and circumstances that could require careful clinical assessment—such as use of blood thinners, having an intrauterine device (IUD), a prior ectopic pregnancy and multiple prior cesarean sections—and the service nevertheless proceeded to payment and shipment. Those reports also say the package arrived in Indiana within days and listed a California return address.
AAPLOG has argued that the episode shows insufficient identity verification and inadequate medical screening for online abortion-pill requests. Aid Access did not respond to comment requests in the reporting reviewed.
The group has urged federal lawmakers to revisit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s rules for mifepristone distribution, including reinstating an in-person dispensing requirement. The FDA, however, has said the current mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) does not require an in-person visit before a patient obtains the drug and that the agency approved changes that removed the in-person dispensing requirement while maintaining other REMS safeguards, such as prescriber certification and a patient agreement form.
The episode described by AAPLOG has not been independently verified in widely sourced, mainstream reporting, and the details available publicly largely come from advocacy-aligned or partisan outlets.
