{"id":2445376,"date":"2025-06-10T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-celebrates-abortionist-who-sells-baby-killing-drugs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:56:36","slug":"nyt-celebrates-abortionist-who-sells-baby-killing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-celebrates-abortionist-who-sells-baby-killing-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Celebrates Abortionist Who Sells Baby-Killing Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-celebrates-abortionist-who-sells-baby-killing-drugs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2445376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York times published a controversial profile of Debra lynch, a nurse practitioner and founder of Her Safe Harbor (HSH), who illegally prescribes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-would-be-my-third-abortion-pregnant-activist-takes-abortion-pill-on-live-tv\/\" title=\"\u2018This Would Be My Third ...\u2019: Pregnant Activist Takes ... On Live TV\">mail-order abortion pills<\/a> to women in states with restrictive abortion laws. The article follows a day in Lynch&#8217;s life, showcasing her operations from her home in delaware, where she sells the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol for $150, while also offering anti-nausea medication. Lynch&#8217;s practices include promoting anonymity for her patients and openly defying legal regulations, notably in pro-life states like Alabama and Texas.Critics argue that the NYT&#8217;s portrayal downplays the potential dangers of these unmonitored abortions and Lynch&#8217;s failure to inform women about possible severe complications. The profile has raised ethical concerns about journalistic obligation,as Lynch&#8217;s actions may be criminal,yet the NYT provided a platform that seems to glorify her defiance of laws meant to protect women and unborn children. Jordan Boyd,the author,compels readers to question the implications of such reporting amidst the heated debate over abortion rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The providers skirting state laws to prescribe a dangerous and fatal drug certainly don&rsquo;t deserve an award, much less a fawning article in the New York Times. Yet a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/09\/health\/a-day-with-one-abortion-pill-prescriber.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">glowing profile<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The story stemmed from a field trip NYT reporter Pam Belluck took to Lynch&rsquo;s &ldquo;home on a quiet residential street&rdquo; in Delaware. It was there that she observed the day in the life of the woman who, ever since the Supreme Court&rsquo;s 2022 <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision, illegally helps other women end their pregnancies at home alone.   <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You won&rsquo;t find anyone else who provides nausea and pain medication,&rdquo; Lynch&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hersafeharbor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website boasts<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>HSH also pledges to &ldquo;never disclose any private health data to any authority&rdquo; and encourages women, especially those in pro-life states, to reduce their &ldquo;digital footprint&rdquo; by calling instead of filling out the online pill request form. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will not comply if we are ever subpoenaed,&rdquo; the HSH website states. <\/p>\n<p>Women who live in states where abortion, surgical or chemical, is banned get the added privilege of skirting HSH&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch took several of those calls, including one from an Alabama woman, in Belluck&rsquo;s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Belluck, who repeatedly and inaccurately referred to the unborn babies who succumbed to the abortion drug regimen as &ldquo;pregnancy tissue,&rdquo; wrote that Lynch determined the mother &ldquo;was medically eligible for abortion medications that can be taken in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/drugsatfda_docs\/label\/2016\/020687s020lbl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mifeprex label<\/a>, however, warns that the drug regimen is only approved for use in &ldquo;early pregnancy,&rdquo; which it defines as 10 weeks gestation or less.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lynch then told the pregnant woman that the pill would cause &ldquo;cramping and bleeding that could continue for days.&rdquo; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/06\/exclusive-see-the-airtight-methodology-showing-11-of-pill-abortions-cause-maternal-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 percent of the women<\/a> who took the drug responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2022\/02\/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than half of the nation&rsquo;s abortions<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>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 &ldquo;safe&rdquo; and claimed that &ldquo;serious complications from medication abortion are rare,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/28\/study-abortion-lobby-medias-claims-that-mifepristone-is-safer-than-tylenol-are-hogwash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">both <\/a>of which are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/28\/study-rate-of-serious-or-life-threatening-complications-after-abortion-pill-is-22-times-higher-than-fda-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">categorically untrue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During Belluck&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/30\/study-83-percent-of-er-visits-due-to-drug-induced-abortions-miscoded-as-miscarriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">researchers warned in a recent study<\/a> could deprive women of the emergency care they need for complications of the abortion pill.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; NYT claims.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;unconventional steps&rdquo; Lynch (and her husband, who Belluck observed tucking the drug &ldquo;into a plain white envelope&rdquo; with a &ldquo;handwritten note on paper decorated with flowers&rdquo;) takes daily to send &ldquo;several hundred packages a month,&rdquo; many containing mifepristone, to women are undoubtedly criminal. <\/p>\n<p>Alabama and Texas, states where Lynch took on telepatients and then shamelessly mailed the abortion pill regimen in front of Belluck, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2021\/12\/06\/1060160624\/prescribing-abortion-pills-online-or-mailing-them-in-texas-can-now-land-you-in-j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">both<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/huntsvilleprc.org\/blog\/2024\/5\/24\/can-you-order-the-abortion-pill-by-mail-in-alabama#:~:text=Alabama's%20law%20prohibits%20residents%20from,be%20expired%2C%20or%20be%20fake.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlaw<\/a> the distribution of mifepristone via mail. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/16\/republicans-serious-about-protecting-life-should-follow-texas-in-prosecuting-abortion-pill-outlaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NYT may not have explicitly confirmed or denied that Belluck was a witness to several suspected crimes that she didn&rsquo;t report. The article suggests, however, that Belluck went to great lengths to make it harder for legal consequences to stem from her story. <\/p>\n<p>In one parenthetical, Belluck clarified that &ldquo;to protect their identity, The Times agreed not to name the patients&rdquo; who received mifepristone from Lynch. She also repeatedly emphasized that Lynch resides in a state that &ldquo;shields&rdquo; abortion pill prescribers from prosecution by refusing to cooperate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admin-rescinds-guidance-forcing-hospitals-into-abortions\/\" title=\"Trump Admin Rescinds Guidance Forcing Hospitals Into ...s\">pro-life states&#038;rsquo<\/a>; investigations and hailed &ldquo;shield laws&rdquo; as a &ldquo;key abortion-rights strategy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to aiding and abetting the end of pregnancies all around the nation, Lynch also openly defies her state&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>The NYT article characterizes Lynch&rsquo;s likely criminal activity and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >subsequent nurse practitioner job-jeopardizing actions<\/a> as a mere attempt to &ldquo;push the envelope.&rdquo; 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. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providers bypassing laws to prescribe a dangerous drug shouldn&#8217;t be celebrated, yet the New York Times profiled Debra Lynch, founder of Her Safe Harbor, who illegally offers mail-order abortion pills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2445377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Untitled-design-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4310,50410,33263],"class_list":["post-2445376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-abortion","tag-controversy-2","tag-new-york-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Untitled-design-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445380,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445376\/revisions\/2445380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}