By LifeSiteNews (Politics) | Created at 2026-10-03 18:56:35 | Updated at 2026-10-03 19:49:14
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Sat Oct 3, 2026 - 2:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Just how far will the abortion industry go to put pills into the hands of African women?
The Population Research Institute (PRI) decided to find out.
We opened WhatsApp and messaged “Nurse Nisa,” a chatbot built by Ipas, the North Carolina–based abortion giant, together with the tech firm Dimagi. It operates in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Within a few messages “Nurse Nisa”–who of course is not a nurse at all–had assured us that abortion pills are safe for “women and girls of all ages,” sent us a link to an online pregnancy calculator, and walked us through taking 12 misoprostol pills.
The website behind that link went further: misoprostol, it said, can be bought at a pharmacy, “sometimes without a prescription.”
Much of what the phony nurse told us was false. The rest was dangerous. Not surprising since “she” is practicing medicine without a license!
PRI has been watching Ipas for more than three decades. In 1991, we reported that Ipas was spreading its manual vacuum aspirators through Kenya, Zaire, and other developing countries, where abortions could be done under the label of “miscarriage treatment.” Ipas has since traded in some of its vacuum pump for a smartphone app, but the deception continues.
‘Safe’ for girls?
Nisa’s opening line is breezy: “Safi! Let’s talk about abortion.” The pills, she assures us, are safe for “women and girls of all ages.”
Says who? Not the drug labels. The U.S. label for mifepristone admits that the drug’s effects by age “have not been investigated.” The label for misoprostol carries a caution for women over 35 and heavy smokers, who were left out of its trials. The manufacturers don’t know the answers. Ipas’s chatbot claims to know them for every schoolgirl who logs on.
A recipe for incomplete abortion
Nisa tells women to take ibuprofen with the pills. But misoprostol, one of the abortion pills, is a prostaglandin, and it works by forcing the uterus to contract. Ibuprofen blocks prostaglandins. Experts have warned that combining the two invites an incomplete abortion, which leaves tissue in the womb that can cause hemorrhage and infection, even death. Ipas’ fake nurse says nothing about this.
How will a woman know the abortion worked? If she has bled and cramped and “no longer feel(s) pregnant,” Nisa says, “the medicine has probably worked.”
Probably. Bleeding and cramping come with incomplete abortions too. They are also signs of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, which kills women and which the pills do nothing to treat.
The old disguise
Then comes the instruction that would make any real nurse blanch. Nisa tells women to prepare “what to tell the healthcare provider if you do not want to or feel you cannot safely tell the provider you took abortion pills.” The care they will receive, she notes, is the same care given after a miscarriage.
There it is again: abortion passed off as miscarriage. In 1991 it was Ipas’s vacuum aspirator. In 2026 it is a script for the emergency room, one that keeps a hemorrhaging woman’s doctor in the dark about what is killing her.
Where the links lead
Before buying pills, Nisa sends women to a “pregnancy calculator” run by Women on Web. That mail-order abortion outfit will even ship pills to women who are not yet pregnant, to keep on hand. Its medical screening asks about three rare conditions and then shrugs, “If you are not already aware of them, you probably don’t have them.”
We told the site we were 30 weeks pregnant. Women on Web declined to ship. It then assured us that “abortion with pills is also safe and effective after 14 weeks or more.”
That is false. The FDA approves mifepristone only through 10 weeks, and the dangers climb steeply after that. Women on Web then helpfully added that misoprostol is sold in pharmacies “sometimes without a prescription.” A woman seven months pregnant, carrying a baby who could survive outside the womb, was pointed toward the pharmacy counter.
In Kenya, that points her toward breaking the law as well. Kenya’s constitution declares that life begins at conception. It permits abortion only when a trained health professional finds that the mother’s life or health is in danger.
Nothing for the mother who wants her baby
In all our conversations, Nisa never asked why we wanted an abortion or whether someone was forcing us into it. She offered no prenatal care, no pregnancy center, no help with rent or food, and no word about adoption. A mother who wants to keep her baby gets nothing.
Her only advice about other people was to “share plans with someone you can trust.” For a girl whose abuser is the one demanding the abortion, that sends her straight back to him.
This is what Western “reproductive health” looks like in Africa these days: foreign money and foreign ideology, delivered anonymously through a phone app that treats the African child as a problem to be solved.
African women deserve real nurses, real doctors, and real help for themselves and their babies. Ipas’s phony “nurse” has only one prescription, and it leads to death.
Steven Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and an internationally recognised authority on China and population issues. He was the first American social scientist allowed to do fieldwork in Communist China (1979-80), where he witnessed women being forcibly aborted and sterilized under the new “one-child-policy”. Mosher’s groundbreaking reports on these barbaric practices led to his termination from Stanford University. A pro-choice atheist at the time, the soul-searching that followed this experience led him to reconsider his convictions and become a practicing, pro-life Roman Catholic.
Mosher has testified two dozen times before the US Congress as an expert in world population, China and human rights. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, NewsMax and other television shows, well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation.
He is the author of a dozen books on China, including the best-selling A Mother’s Ordeal: One woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child-Policy. His latest books are Bully of Asia (2022) about the threat that the Chinese Communist Party poses to the U.S. and the world, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics. (2022).
Articles by Steve have also appeared in The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post, National Review, Reason, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Freedom Review, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Human Life Review, First Things, and numerous other publications.
Steven Mosher lives in Florida with his wife, Vera, and a constant stream of children and grandchildren.
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