'Plan C': The Dark Money Activists Smuggling the Abortion Pill into Red States

What began as an arrest warrant for a California abortionist has exposed a bombshell plot to illegally flood red states with abortion pills, Restoration News has uncovered.

On Sept. 19, Louisiana authorities issued an arrest warrant for Dr. Remy Coeytaux, a French-born physician based in northern California, accusing him of helping a man force his girlfriend to ingest mifepristone in 2023—one of the two drugs used in chemical abortions. Louisiana has outlawed nearly all abortions, including chemical abortions.

That move follows Texas' cease-and-desist letter in August, ordering Coeytaux to stop illegally shipping abortion pills into the state, which has also banned most abortions. Officials say his actions led to the deaths of two unborn babies.

Together, these cases spotlight an intensifying clash between red and blue states in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision returning abortion law to the states. Republican leaders are pursuing abortionists through lawsuits and prosecutions, while Democrats shield them from justice. Now pro-life advocates are pressuring the Trump administration to end the standoff—either by invoking the Comstock Act to prohibit mailing abortion drugs or by pulling mifepristone from the market altogether, citing its documented safety risks.

Whichever path President Trump chooses, he must act now—because Coeytaux is only one player in a global network illegally smuggling abortion pills into Texas, Louisiana, and beyond.

The other is his sister.

The French Connection

Plan C Pills makes it clear it does not sell abortion pills, but it will teach anyone how to illegally purchase mifepristone "if their state bans abortion"—or even those who lack a uterus:

Abortion pills can be used by people with a uterus who can get pregnant, including cisgender women and those who identify as trans, non-binary, gender-expansive, intersex, Two-Spirit, and more. When we switch between terms—like “women” and “people who are pregnant”—we aim to be inclusive of all pregnant people.

Screenshot from Plan C Pills' FAQ

The group, founded in 2015 by Francine Coeytaux—sister to Remy—serves as a hub for dozens of abortion pill distributors under the blanket term "telehealth." While there are legitimate reasons for patients to meet virtually with doctors online, far-left activists have expanded telehealth to include obtaining abortion drugs online and through U.S. mail.

One of Plan C's affiliates is Aid Access, the Austrian distributor Texas says Monsieur Coeytaux used to terminate two babies. Aid Access was created specifically to mail generic mifepristone pills in all 50 U.S. states three years before the Biden administration greenlit the practice in 2021. Post-Dobbs, the group says it targets 6,000 women each month in states with abortion bans.

Plan C itself is a front for Possibility Labs, a nest for spawning new far-left activist groups that exploit IRS charity laws to push social justice causes. "We envision a just world where Black, Indigenous, People of Color and systemically oppressed communities have the power of self-determination," Possibility Labs says of itself.

Because Plan C is a fiscal project, it doesn't report its donors or board of directors per usual IRS rules. But Possibility Labs has raked in over $65 million from left-wing mega-funders, including George Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nearly one-third of that sum, $21 million, came from the Kataly Foundation, a key funder of Black Lives Matter that itself is bankrolled by the infamous Chicago Pritzker family.

Both Remy and Francine Coeytaux are French immigrants active in pro-abortion circles for decades. In the 1970s, Francine was a teen counselor for Planned Parenthood who later developed "health programs for migrant children" in rural California. She went on to join numerous groups pushing for abortion access overseas, including Engender Health—which was founded as the Sterilization League of New Jersey a century ago to support eugenics.

But it's the nine years Coeytaux worked for the Population Council (1984–1993) that overlap with the French development and U.S. introduction of RU-486, better known today as mifepristone.

Plan C Pills advises visitors on potential legal risks to buying abortion pills in certain states

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When Plans A & B Fail…

The French government approved RU-486 for sale in Oct. 1988—only for its manufacturer, Roussel-Uclaf, to pull the drug off-market weeks later, citing an "outcry of public opinion at home and abroad." That "outcry" came from obvious parallels between RU-486 and the most notorious chemical once produced by Roussel-Uclaf's German parent company: Zyklon B, used to gas millions of people in the Holocaust.

Roussel-Uclaf only reversed its decision to withdraw after pressure from France's health minister; but it refused to market RU-486 in the United States, where opposition to abortion was widespread and organized.

As Restoration News has documented, the Clinton administration ultimately strongarmed Roussel-Uclaf into signing over the patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council in 1994. Disturbingly, President Clinton himself explained his support for the abortion pill in terms of "reduc[ing] the rate of population growth" worldwide.

It's worth noting that the Population Council was founded in 1952 to do just that: Reduce global population. Nor was population control a mid-century fluke; the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed in 2009 that Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 out of "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

Francine Coeytaux played a major role in mifepristone's rollout. In the mid-1990s, with substantial funding from the leftist Packard Foundation, she was part of the team that shepherded the Plan B or "morning-after pill" through FDA approval, which prevents pregnancy after sex by delaying ovulation. Over the next two decades, she lobbied hard to expand access to abortion pills via mail, culminating in Plan C's national campaign demanding doctors mail mifepristone to homes during the spring 2020 COVID lockdowns.

That meant breaking federal law… and defying the Supreme Court, which overruled a lower court decision allowing the abortion pills to be mailed. Plan C boasts:

Aid Access continued to mail pills to patients across the U.S. and providers considered how much they were willing to risk to provide patient-centered care in a public health crisis. Plan C continued to share information about alternate routes of access to pills, including online pill vendors and Aid Access.

Then President Biden changed it. In 2021, the FDA suspended its in-person dispensation requirement, letting women buy mifepristone online without ever seeing a doctor and leading to at least three women's deaths over the following 12 months.

Advocates claim mifepristone is "safer than Tylenol." Yet the Restoration of America Foundation's review of medical insurance claims data from 2017–2023 found that 10.93 percent of drug-induced abortions resulted in at least one serious adverse health event—a rate 22 times higher than the FDA claims. In 2023, it was even worse: 11.2 percent.

Health & Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to investigate abortion pill dangers, but so far has little to show for it.

The Left Goes All In

Since then, Plan C Pills has been at the center of red vs. blue state free-for-all undermining pro-life laws. When Texas outlawed "aiding and abetting" an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy in 2021, Plan C funded a "mobile billboard truck to drive through West Texas and share information on abortion pills by mail on college campus 'free speech' zones."

"AOC's tweet about Plan C garnered more than 8M views," the group says.

“I’ve been vilified and I’ve been defunded,” Francine Coeytaux boasts. “I had a funder the other day say that what I was doing was criminal activity.”

Plan C is also part of multiple leftist coalitions to codify an unlimited national abortion right. One of them, Abortion On Our Own Terms, likely began life as a fiscal project of the Arabella network, the Left's largest dark money machine.

In July, a Plan C spokeswoman told Mother Jones that physicians who mail abortion pills are "operating legally under the laws of their states." That couldn't be further from the truth.

The Comstock Act, an 1873 anti-pornography law hailed as Trump's "nuclear option," allows the President to ban distributors from mailing mifepristone and misoprostol in the United States. The Biden administration circumvented the law by interpreting it to only prohibit mailing drugs used in illegal abortions, carving out a novel exception for mifepristone. Now congressional Democrats are clamoring to kill Comstock altogether before the Trump administration has a chance to enforce it, indicating they realize the threat it poses to their scheme.

Restoration News has detailed both options open to the President: Reinstate the Comstock Act by rescinding the Biden memorandum protecting mifepristone, and ban the abortion pill as too dangerous to be marketed—period.

Either way, President Trump has the sole power to undo the damage of his autopen predecessor and get America back to the way it was under Trump 1.0.

(READ MORE: Time to Face the Truth about Mifepristone)