The site, www.womenonweb.org, directs women through an online questionnaire. In return for a 'donation' of €70, it then sends abortion drugs to the women who take the drugs at home. There is no doctor to examine the woman before sending her the drugs, nor is one available should complications arise.

This is extremely dangerous. It is also illegal, as the Irish Medicines Board has emphasised in its guidance (http://www.imb.ie/EN/News/Medicines-via-the-Internet.aspx)

It is not uncommon for serious complications requiring surgical intervention to occur for women who obtain abortion pills online. A study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Volume 115 Issue 9, August 2008) found that 13.6 per cent of women who used abortion pills at home reported being admitted to hospital to undergo curettage/vacuum aspiration for incomplete abortion or excessive bleeding. This study provides clear evidence that serious complications are common among women who use this drug.

In response Family & Life is asking Internet Service Providers to block this site as they do with other illegal sites.  A petition has been set up to allow people make easy representation to the Internet Service Providers.  The petition can be viewed at www.opinionviewer.com

The second phase of this campaign will involve using social media to increase pressure on the ISP's  The third part of the campaign will involve asking the government to introduce legislation that will prevent the sale, access and distribution by whatever means of these and similar baby-killing drugs.

Please give your on-going support to this campaign.