NYT Celebrates Abortionist Who Sells Baby-Killing Drugs

The providers skirting state laws to prescribe a dangerous and fatal drug certainly don’t deserve an award, much less a fawning article in the New York Times. Yet a glowing profile is exactly what the publication gave Her Safe Harbor (HSH) Founder Debra Lynch, a nurse practitioner who proudly breaks laws to prescribe mail-order abortion pills to women in pro-life states.

The story stemmed from a field trip NYT reporter Pam Belluck took to Lynch’s “home on a quiet residential street” in Delaware. It was there that she observed the day in the life of the woman who, ever since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision, illegally helps other women end their pregnancies at home alone.

For $150, Lynch and her husband agree to mail a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol plus anti-nausea and over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs to anyone who requests it, regardless of where they live.

“You won’t find anyone else who provides nausea and pain medication,” Lynch’s website boasts.

HSH also pledges to “never disclose any private health data to any authority” and encourages women, especially those in pro-life states, to reduce their “digital footprint” by calling instead of filling out the online pill request form.

“We will not comply if we are ever subpoenaed,” the HSH website states.

Women who live in states where abortion, surgical or chemical, is banned get the added privilege of skirting HSH’s online order form in favor of a phone call with Lynch. They are also not required to provide proof of identification to receive the abortion drugs.

Lynch took several of those calls, including one from an Alabama woman, in Belluck’s presence.

Belluck, who repeatedly and inaccurately referred to the unborn babies who succumbed to the abortion drug regimen as “pregnancy tissue,” wrote that Lynch determined the mother “was medically eligible for abortion medications that can be taken in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.”

The Mifeprex label, however, warns that the drug regimen is only approved for use in “early pregnancy,” which it defines as 10 weeks gestation or less.

Lynch then told the pregnant woman that the pill would cause “cramping and bleeding that could continue for days.” She left out, however, the possibility of serious adverse events such as emergency room visits, hemorrhage, sepsis, infection, and/or follow-up surgeries, which a recent study found afflicted 11 percent of the women who took the drug responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions.

Belluck took it even further by insisting the mail-order abortion drug regimen that causes women to bleed at home alone with hardly any oversight or follow-up is “safe” and claimed that “serious complications from medication abortion are rare,” both of which are categorically untrue.

During Belluck’s visit, Lynch even walked one Texas woman through how to deceive emergency room workers into believing she was suffering a miscarriage, not bleeding from mifepristone, a lie that researchers warned in a recent study could deprive women of the emergency care they need for complications of the abortion pill.

“Ms. Lynch, like other abortion providers, counsels that there is no medical reason for women to tell hospitals they have taken abortion pills, and that they can allow hospitals to assume they are miscarrying, which involves the same symptoms and is often treated with the same medications,” NYT claims.

The “unconventional steps” Lynch (and her husband, who Belluck observed tucking the drug “into a plain white envelope” with a “handwritten note on paper decorated with flowers”) takes daily to send “several hundred packages a month,” many containing mifepristone, to women are undoubtedly criminal.

Alabama and Texas, states where Lynch took on telepatients and then shamelessly mailed the abortion pill regimen in front of Belluck, both outlaw the distribution of mifepristone via mail. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton even sued a New York doctor after she prescribed a Lone Star State woman an abortion pill that not only killed her unborn child but also sent her to the hospital with life-threatening complications.

Yet, when The Federalist asked NYT whether Belluck alerted authorities to the alleged crimes she witnessed during her day with Lynch, NYT did not immediately respond to comment.

In addition to aiding and abetting the end of pregnancies all around the nation, Lynch also openly defies her state’s licensed prescriber requirements by refusing to put a copy of the prescriptions she writes in the envelope with mail-order abortion pills. She also admitted that she often disguises the mifepristone request conversation receipts to medical insurers as a urinary tract infection consultation.

The NYT article characterizes Lynch’s likely criminal activity and subsequent nurse practitioner job-jeopardizing actions as a mere attempt to “push the envelope.” The picture the author ultimately painted, however, is one of a couple who willingly defy laws designed to protect women and babies from harm to do even more damage by offering them DIY abortions with little to no oversight.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.