Teens are buying abortion drugs online without their parents’ knowledge, a new study admits.

Written by pro-abortion Aid Access founder Rebecca Gomperts and two scholars, the study looks at “requests made to a high-volume online medication abortion telemedicine service.”

They found that pro-life states saw a greater increase in teens buying abortion drugs online than pro-abortion states after the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson ruling.

The researchers are glad teens found a way to “circumvent” the parental involvement laws, which they call “barriers.”

Co-author Dana Johnson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison, wrote an accompanying essay summarizing what she found.

The online buying trend, Johnson says, “may be evidence of the huge barrier of parental involvement laws.”

“It may also signal that states with parental involvement laws also have additional policies restricting abortion—such as mandatory waiting periods or gestational bans —and that minors are living in an even more restrictive policy context than adults,” she wrote in The Conversation.

The academic paper and essay underscore why pro-abortion groups are so intent on keeping abortion drugs widely available; they are a way to “circumvent” pro-life laws, especially for teens.

Furthermore, the researchers tacitly admit that when parents are involved, girls are less likely to choose abortions. Otherwise the scholar-activists would not see parental involvement laws as a “barrier.”

Due in part to the numerous side effects associated with the drugs, parental knowledge is important when girls make the tragic decision to end their pregnancies.

Excessive bleeding, sepsis, and infections are all known consequences of taking the drug, but a girl could be dangerously suffering in silence unless her parents know she took the chemical drugs.

Unfortunately, abortion drugs such as mifepristone have become widely available after the Biden administration made it easy for groups such as Aid Access to ship the pills across the country. The Biden administration unilaterally removed the in-person dispensing requirement, which acted as a safeguard for abuse.

The Trump administration has been slow to reenact the safeguards, frequently referencing a safety review which has yet to materialize—nearly a year and a half since President Donald Trump took office. Officials also approved a generic abortion drug and have opposed efforts by states such as Louisiana to sue the Food and Drug Administration to stop the flow of illegal pills.

No abortion drug can truly be safe since it ends the life of an innocent human being, but everyone should be able to agree that girls should at least not be able to access the pills online through some unknown internet dealer without their parents’ knowledge.