On Tuesday, the far-left website Vice promoted and shared a self-described anarchist group’s recipe for a do-it-yourself abortion pill, which could allow prospective mothers to end their baby’s life without medical assistance. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, a biohacking group, which has a history of sharing do-it-yourself medications, first concocted their homemade abortion pill in 2019.
Last year, in reaction to the Texas legislature passing its heartbeat law, the group released a 17-minute video on how to make misoprostol tablets, which can be used to induce abortions. The video is presented by Michael S. “Mixael” Laufer, the leader of the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective.
“The first thing to mention is this has been put together with a little bit of haste,” Laufer said in the video. “There’s been a great deal of panic because the Republic of Texas has gotten up to some shenanigans to benefit people who are in power and to keep a bunch of other people powerless.”
While it’s unwise to promote “do-it-yourself” medication, isn’t it even more unwise to do so “with a little bit of haste?”
On Tuesday, Laufer shared the video on Twitter. Despite their much-stated aversion to sharing “medical misinformation,” the tweet remains up on the social network.
“Not hypothetical at all. Go forth and rock it,” Laufer wrote.
In the video, Laufer lays out his shady methods for how to obtain misoprostol from veterinarians who use the drug to treat ulcers in horses.
“You will need the misoprostol powder, you will need a scale, you will need a pollen press … you’ll need some confectioners’ sugar and some cornstarch or powdered milk, and you’ll need a spray bottle. And that’s it, six things,” Laufer calmly asserts in the video, in which he explains how to kill a fetus in utero.
Laufer claims his baby-killing solutions are 85-95 percent effective. He also says that the pills he teaches laymen to make should be a last resort, and that people should seek assistance from established abortion providers first.
“The video is likely to help at least some people seeking abortions,” the Vice story, written by Jason Koebler, asserts. The article appears on the Vice Motherboard technology page.
“Motherboard cannot speak to the safety of making your own pills, and the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has been criticized by some in the pharmaceutical and medical establishment who think that making DIY medicine isn’t safe under any circumstances,” Koebler’s story says.
But Motherboard’s Twitter page issued no such caveat, instead linking to the video with a tweet that reads, “Misoprostol is relatively easy to acquire from veterinary sources, since in addition to medically inducing abortions, it’s also used to treat ulcers in horses.”
So the story provides the caveat that the safety of making your own abortion pills cannot be vouched for, but then the source’s Twitter page tells you how easy it is to get the ingredients.
If you’re thinking that Vice was among those criticizing people such as Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers for using ivermectin, which news sources such as CNN continually referred to as “horse medicine,” despite the fact that the drug also had human uses, you’re absolutely right. Vice at least appears to grasp the irony a little bit.
“This is reminiscent of ivermectin, which is used to control parasites in horses but also became a favored — but ineffective — COVID treatment among conspiracy theorists. Ivermectin’s use in horses made it easier for humans to get without a prescription,” the piece points out.
At the time, Vice itself tweeted that Rogan was spreading “misinformation.”
“Rogan has recovered from COVID-19 and used his first show back to spread misinformation about the horse-deworming drug he took,” Vice tweeted with a link to a story which accused Rogan of “shilling for ivermectin.”
Now Vice itself is shilling for a horse drug to be used on humans — for abortion, of all things.
Since a leak at the Supreme Court revealed a draft of a majority decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade — the flawed high court decision that has allowed abortion to be legal at the federal level since 1973 — pro-abortion forces have ramped up their rhetoric and intimidation tactics against the Court and pro-life forces.
And now, at least one far-left information source is even promoting risky do-it-yourself abortions.
