Mexicans once envied the reproductive freedoms available in the United States. Now, they’re shipping pills across the border and fielding desperate questions from states where abortion is effectively banned
Vanessa Jiménez Rubalcava and her wife, Sandra Cardona Alanís, co-founded an organization to get abortion pills to Mexicans who need them, which they run out of their home in Monterrey .Vanessa Jiménez Rubalcava could spend all day responding to text messages. They come in at all hours, a torrent of questions from Americans translated into Spanish. The women and girls on the other end are all looking for the same thing: abortion pills.Ms.
Ms. Cardona Alanís hands a ride-share and delivery driver a package of abortion pills. Inside the packages are mifepristone, misoprostol, ibuprofen and pads. One client sent the couple a thank-you letter. Mexicans once made up most of their client base, but in the past two years, many Americans began asking about abortion drugs too.
“It’s not just taking a pill in your bathroom and freaking out because you’re bleeding so much,” Ms. Ocampo said. “So this part of the network, that’s what makes it so valuable. They do the whole thing, not just send pills.”Monterrey is the capital of Nuevo León, one of 31 states that comprise Mexico, along with the federal district of Mexico City. Reproductive laws vary from state to state, but as of 2021, abortion is not a federal crime.
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