U.S. customers started deluging Mexican border pharmacies after Texas passed an anti-abortion law last fall. A two-pill combination costs about $400 and does not require a doctor's prescription.
Since Texas passed a strict anti-abortion law in September, more and more women along the southern border have been going to unregulated pharmacies in Mexico to get abortion pills. Border health professionals fear the Mexican pharmacies have become a last resort for some women. Observers say it's a sign of what's to come if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
One drug, Mifepristone, blocks the hormone needed for a pregnancy to continue; the other drug, Misoprostol, causes cramping and bleeding to empty the uterus. ThePharmacies in Nuevo Progreso have noticed a sharp increase in a certain clientele. Misoprostol, which is also prescribed to prevent stomach ulcers, is freely sold over the counter. He sells Mifepristone, the exclusive abortion drug, under the counter. But Garza claims he doesn't actually like to sell either one.
"They're stuck in the Valley with no access to abortion," says Carla Angulo-Pasel, a political scientist and assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
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