According to the Ipas website, "Ipas partner Las Libres has produced a short documentary film detailing its successful 'accompaniment model' that pairs women seeking medical abortion with women committed to accompanying others on a volunteer basis throughout the process of a safe abortion." (It is important to note that "safe" abortion in this context is illegal abortion or in Ipas terminology "outside the formal health system".) Las Libres Executive Director Verónica Cruz stated, "...we were tired of hearing that abortion is almost always a negative experience for women."

The network promoting the illegal destruction of children in the womb has been operating for a number of years in the Mexican state of Guanajuato where abortion is legally restricted and permitted only in the case of rape but where Ipas has trained volunteers on the use of abortion inducing pills for illegal DIY abortion. Volunteers accompany abortion-minded women to the pharmacy to buy the drug--usually Cytotec/Misoprostol--and tell her how to take the pills, calling or texting during the abortion process.

Las Libres's goal for the network is to change the cultural view of abortion by showing "the other face of abortion, the positive experience, the accompanied experience, the exercise of the human right of women to decide, and the accompaniment of women by other women who have lived the accompaniment process ... to see how after a safe abortion, accompanied, that woman, that couple or that family eliminates the stigma around abortion."

The film is expected to be shared "widely via social media, public screenings, university classes, conferences, partner organizations, and through the various accompaniment networks that already exist across Mexico" with the intent that the "film will help reduce the stigma surrounding abortion in Mexico and help viewers cultivate a new and more positive perspective on abortion." The NGOs hope that abortion activists in other countries will create their own illegal abortion networks.

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a partner of UNFPA, has released a new film series that seeks to break "the stigma surrounding abortion" while increasing access to it around the world. The films feature the stories of women who have had abortion presenting values and laws against abortion as "misinformation and discrimination". IPPF says that globally, 60,000 women get secret and "unsafe" abortions each year because of national laws and social "stigmas" --in reality cultural and religious values that respect life from conception--but fails to address the growing promotion of illegal abortion by other NGOs including Ipas' work in Mexico.

IPPF's Director-General, Tewodros Melesse states, "Stigma is more than a barrier for a woman seeking an abortion. It can isolate them and deny them their right to the information, support and services they need to make an informed and empowered choice." However, the films and IPPF only push one "empowered choice" and fail to acknowledge the rights and dignity of the unborn daughters and sons destroyed in abortion.

The legal status of abortion does not prevent these NGOs and others from encouraging and instructing women in low resource areas to end the lives of their unborn children through use of pills which produce strong uterine contractions, often accompanied with blood loss, despite the fact that hemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal mortality in Africa and that this abortion technique has a high failure rate resulting in health complications for the woman.

NGOs deceive women in South Sudan and elsewhere telling them that the abortion procedure is similar to a spontaneous miscarriage and that "no one needs to know" that the mother herself ended the life of her own daughter or son in her own home. The drug must frequently used is misoprostol, the second drug in the RU 486 abortion regimen. The first drug, mifepristone, is not registered in many developing countries since its only use is that of abortifacient--stopping the flow of nutrients from the mother to her child resulting in the starvation of the child-so misoprostol alone is promoted for abortion.

Irish politicians within the Labour and Fine Gael parties are calling for a new abortion referendum that is considered highly unlikely during the present Government. The referendum would delete Article 40.3.3 of the country's constitution, removing all protections for the unborn child paving the way for abortion on demand. This recent push to liberalize Ireland's law follows the controversial case of a pregnant woman who claimed to be suicidal but was denied an abortion and delivered the baby by Caesarean section at approximately 25 weeks gestation. The case is essentially the first test case of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act of 2013 which allowed abortion in the case of a suicidal mother. As the baby now clings to life, abortion advocates are pointing to this case as a reason for abortion on demand.

Dr. Ruth Cullen with the Pro-Life Campaign called out the blatant disregard for the life that has been demonstrated by the media and abortion supporters. They have not only refused to acknowledge the existence of the fragile baby, whom pro-life groups have named "Hope", but they are also victimizing the mother. "The woman at the centre of this latest tragic case is deserving of every possible welcome, warmth and support but it does a grave disservice to her and to every other woman in the country for pro-choice advocates to claim abortion is a treatment for suicidal feelings when they know it is not," she said.

Additionally, nearly 900 doctors have now signed the Dublin Declaration, which declares that abortion is not needed to save women's lives. Dr. Eoghan de Faoite pointed to the importance of Ireland's pro-life laws. "Ireland's ban on abortion wasn't just something symbolic. It provided proof, if ever needed, that pro-life laws do not jeopardize women's health, but rather they encourage, and oblige, medical professionals to do everything they must do to save a woman's life in pregnancy and do everything he or she can do to also preserve the life of the baby." Dr de Faoite said the Dublin Declaration "is a hugely important tool for the global pro-life community and for the growing movement of doctors who recognize that every pregnancy has two patients that need to be cared for - mother and child."