In a chilling new animated video, the Canadian anti-abortion group Choice42 depicts a conversation between an online abortion pill merchant and a woman who is pregnant with twins. It is titled “Death on Delivery,” and it exposes the growing online market for abortion pills, which can be purchased online and delivered anywhere in the world.
“Death on Delivery” uses voiceovers to highlight the process. The seller assures the buyer that the pills will work, but notes that the baby – or in this case, twins – might be born alive. This, the seller says, is no problem. The babies will die shortly after birth. She suggests, as a solution to the problem of what to do with their corpses, that they might be buried in the backyard.
“The inspiration for this video is the growing problem of abortion pills being sold online,” Laura Klassen, the founder of Choice42, told LifeSiteNews. “Hundreds of accounts on social media advertise abortion pills for sale. It seems that many of the sellers are in third world countries, and they are willing to ship the pills anywhere … even to areas where abortion is illegal.”
As the opening scene of the video indicates, the conversation between the seller and the pregnant purchaser is a real one. “Death on Delivery is based on a real conversation that took place on messenger,” Klassen said. “A Choice42 contact posed as a potential buyer online, and responded to a ‘Proof of Success’ photo on X, which shows the aborted twin babies on the bathroom floor, that the seller had posted to advertise their pills.”
That final scene in the video, that showed twin babies sobbing as they died on the bathroom floor? It actually happened. Klassen sent LifeSiteNews several of the genuine photos as evidence:
These photos of aborted babies are sent by the buyers to the sellers as proof that their product works; the sellers, in turn, use these abortion victim photos to advertise their products to other potential buyers. The message is simple: Here is confirmation that after you take these pills, your baby will die. Maybe not right away, but soon after birth.
“As proof that their pills really do work, the seller sent screenshots of the conversation between them and the buyer in Texas,” Klassen explained. “The Choice42 contact was also posing as a pregnant woman, and asking for pills to abort her late-term baby. The seller readily agreed and was eager to do business.”
Klassen is hoping that the video, which is both a mini-documentary as well as a piece of investigative journalism, will draw attention to this growing problem (which we have covered extensively at LifeSiteNews, too).
“I’m hoping that viewers realize that this is a deadly problem that is only growing,” she said. “Despite surgical abortion being outlawed in certain areas, women are still able to abort their babies by simply ordering the pills online. In these cases, the mother is the abortionist herself: purchasing the pills, taking the pills, delivering the baby at home, and dealing with the body afterward.”
This, of course, leads to horrific scenarios. “The pills were designed for early-term pregnancy termination; when they are used late term, many of the babies are born alive,” Klassen said. “The mothers are leaving them to die of exposure or even drowning them in the toilet or suffocating them with towels. All of this information is available in the abortion pill selling groups online, as buyers and sellers communicate about the process and proudly share pictures of their ‘results’ (their dead babies).”
This online digital black market in abortion pills is difficult to combat. “There is really no way to track these international abortion pill sellers, as they hide the pills that are being shipped by sewing them into clothing or other items,” Klassen told LifeSiteNews. “They routinely delete their accounts online and create new ones.”
Thus, one of the most powerful ways to combat these horrors is to ensure that as many people as possible see them – and sharing “Death on Delivery” is a powerful way of doing just that.
