Violence, crime, and drug-related deaths in the U.S. have been on the rise for some time now, thanks to Mexican drug cartels, but a new report is revealing that a different kind of cartel is flooding the U.S. with a different kind of drug—namely, abortion pills. A new in-depth study, “Beneath the Surface: Exposing the Abortion Pill Drug Cartel,” published by the American Life League, dives into how abortion pill companies ship the deadly drugs to states with stringent pro-life laws. The American Life League observed, “To the casual observer, this pill network is modeled after the drug cartel, creating an abortion pill crisis similar to our nation’s narcotics crisis.”

A coroner is calling for changes to assisted suicide laws in Queensland, Australia, after an elderly man was able to kill himself using his wife’s assisted suicide pills. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the man’s wife was declared eligible for assisted suicide in March of 2023; medication was delivered to the couple’s home a month later. However, the couple went to the hospital, where the man’s wife was euthanized using an intravenous drug instead. The man was supposed to return the assisted suicide pills delivered to their home, but never did. Instead, he took them on his own and died on May 16, 2023, just days after his wife’s death.