A new lawsuit is again highlighting that abusers take advantage of online abortion pill distribution to harm women and cover up their tracks. Such malevolence can even occur under the Cadet’s Code of Honor, as seen in the case of former West Point Cadet Caleb Suh. He has admitted to a horrible act in 2022 and is currently being sued by his former girlfriend for assault and battery. Here are the details of this story:
Suh was a sophomore at West Point when he started dating his former girlfriend, a freshman cadet. According to the lawsuit, when she became pregnant and insisted on choosing life for their child, he demanded she have an abortion and “threatened to kill himself” if she didn’t. When she continued to refuse, he instead killed their baby.
As Suh admitted in his guilty plea, he turned to an online pharmacy for induced abortion pills and impersonated his former girlfriend to be able to order them. After drugging her with Xanax and forcing abortion pills on her while she was barely conscious, Suh left her bleeding and in severe pain. She later learned at the hospital that she had lost the baby.
This is an ugly case, but it is unfortunately not isolated. Nationwide, abusers utilize the online abortion pill industry to secretly or forcefully make their victims ingest the abortion pill. The perpetrators are often male sexual partners, but abusive mothers and other family members have been charged as well. No matter who you are, it’s easy enough to obtain these pills.
AAPLOG confirmed this with a recent undercover investigation that revealed a shocking lack of oversight. AAPLOG CEO Dr. Christina Francis posed as a 13-year-old girl who was uncertain about her pregnancy status and reported high-risk medical conditions and history, including multiple cesarean sections, anemia, anticoagulation therapy, and an IUD in place. To watch Dr. Francis order the pills, click here. Despite all these red flags, an abortion pill package still showed up at her doorstep. To watch this unboxing, click here.
As detailed in the previous story, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently conducting a safety review of mifepristone, particularly its 2021 decision to allow the drug to be prescribed online and mailed. Ordered in mid 2025 by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to produce a review, the federal agency has continued to drag its feet. It finally announced a March 2027 release deadline. In a media interview, Dr. Francis aired her concerns that such a lengthy review was unprecedented – and that the FDA appears to be looking at inappropriate data.
Dr. Francis stated, “The other real concern is the one data source that they cited in the report, which is…very incomplete data, the Sentinel Data Set. It only includes insurance claims data from a few insurance providers. If you look at the Sentinel’s own website, the amount of data they have after 2021 drops dramatically because they don’t have Medicaid data from those years. Why is that important for this issue? In 2021, the FDA removed the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone. It’s after that that we know that the rate of complications started to increase dramatically, and yet it appears that they are not even looking at the right data to be able to pull those complications.”
The importance of a thorough FDA review that examines the correct data cannot be overstated. If we do not repair our mifepristone REMS to protect women, women and babies will continue to be the victims of stories like the one at West Point.
