POLICE HAVE BEEN USING DRUG-SNIFFING DOGS TO FIND ABORTION PILLS IN THE MAIL?
Abortion is going to be front and center in the election shortly, and stories like this will only make it more so, especially in swing states. Multiple states outlawed abortion, outraging many and making a much smaller group of social conservatives happy. And abortion pills are also a target, with some states taking the legal position that a zygote is a human being and using the pill is murder. So what are they doing to control the women in their states, to prevent them from having any access to abortion pills? Why, they’re having their police use drug sniffing dogs to find them in the mail.
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DRUG-SNIFFING DOGS AREN’T TRAINED TO DETECT AND FIND ABORTION PILLS
The news was broken by The Intercept. They reported that a cop and his K-9 partner in Jackson, Mississippi responded when a post office employee reported someone putting pink pills into pink envelopes. When the cop and drug sniffing dog arrived, the dog signaled on one of the envelopes. So what did the police do? They got a warrant to open the envelope and found “AntiPreg Kit” abortion pills. So was this a police operation to stop abortion pills? No, not formally. And were any of the dogs like Rip, who signaled on the pink envelope, trained to find abortion pills? No.
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NEARLY 100 PREGNANT WOMEN DIDN’T GET THEIR “MAIL” DUE TO THIS “OPERATION”
So how did this happen? There’s a theory that the dogs respond to unconscious “cueing” from their police handlers to “find” what they find. In other words, the dogs react to subtle human behaviors, and not their nose as they are trained. But it’s pretty scary to consider how political abortion is in general, and abortion pills by association, when police K-9 units are “finding” abortion pills. And this operation caused almost 100 pregnant women to not receive their packages of abortion pills. That’s pretty disturbing. Let’s hope this does not continue, or become official police practice.
