(LifeSiteNews) — If you were to ask the average pro-lifer to name the leading international abortion network of the 21st century, nearly everyone would answer, “The International Planned Parenthood Federation.”

They would be wrong.

While IPPF reports performing approximately 6.5 million abortions a year through its network of providers and member associations, these numbers are dwarfed by DKT International.

According to DKT, in 2025 alone it supplied a whopping:

• 6.5 million mifepristone/misoprostol combipacks,
• 31.1 million misoprostol tablets,
• 275,000 Manual Vacuum Aspirators, each one of which can be reused dozens of times by simply changing the attached cannula (“tube”) that is inserted into the uterus to extract the baby. So how many cannulae did DKT supply? 31.1 million.

While it is true that not every one of the tens of millions of abortion pills or MVA cannulae marketed by DKT resulted in an abortion, many of them did.

Let’s say that a quarter of the pills and cannulae just sat on a shelf somewhere and were never used, and that it takes a dozen misoprostol tablets per abortion. That still leaves 5 million abortions from the combipacks, 2.5 million from the misoprostol, and 10 to 20 million MVA abortions.

Even using the lower estimate of 10 million MVA abortions, that would still mean that DKT is responsible for ending the lives of perhaps 17.5 million unborn children each year, or more than twice as many as IPPF.

DKT claims that its network providers are not just performing abortions but are engaging in “miscarriage management” or providing “post-abortion care.” These are nothing more than linguistic dodges intended to disguise the chief aim of the organization, which is to make abortion available to every woman on the planet – for a price. 

Now you know why DKT International bills itself as “the world’s largest provider of reproductive health and abortion services.” 

Because in terms of the sheer number of abortions it performs, it clearly has become the global leader.

Yet even among those who closely follow the abortion debate, few fully grasp the size, sophistication, and reach of this enormous international network.

Or that much of its operation is illegal.

PRI’s investigation, carried out with the assistance of the association Origen Vanguardia y Cambio Cultural, has revealed how DKT International has completely transformed the traditional abortion approach of IPPF and is now exporting a new model to continents and countries worldwide.

The old model used by IPPF, Marie Stopes, and others to promote abortion in the twentieth century was based on surgical abortion, and surgical abortion requires specialized clinics, medical procedures, and visible legal frameworks.

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But the 21st century has brought a new model.

And the new model is abortion by pill. Its users – we are tempted to say victims – are recruited through social media or WhatsApp, guided through telemedicine, pay out of pocket, and receive the pills in the mail. The resulting abortions occur at home, far from hospitals, self-administered by a pregnant woman who is alone, distressed, and vulnerable.

This change did not occur spontaneously or accidentally. Behind this transformation are architects, operators, international logistics chains, and carefully designed strategies intended to partially or completely bypass the health, regulatory, and pharmaceutical controls of dozens of countries. 

And the architect of this transformation has a name: DKT International.

NGO or commercial company? A clever ambiguity

DKT International has two faces. It operates simultaneously as an NGO and a for-profit company. It markets abortion products like an international corporation at the same time that it poses as a “reproductive health” organization. 

This clever duality is one of the keys to its rapid expansion.

DKT International was founded in 1989 – a latecomer on the international abortion front – but has grown rapidly in recent years. It currently has a presence in more than 100 countries, over 25 offices, and more than 4,000 employees. 

In the past, DKT received generous financial support from USAID, although those funds have now been cut off by the Trump administration. Today, contraceptive sales provide 70 to 80 percent of its revenue, with grants from the Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Packard Foundation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and other donors making up the difference.

DKT proudly promotes abortion through what it calls “dynamic social marketing.” This is not a traditional advertising campaign, but rather something far more sophisticated. It integrates audience research, behavior change, product distribution, training of health personnel, digital platforms, and telemedicine into one massive abortion juggernaut.

Those who oppose or resist abortion are relentlessly attacked by DKT on social media for propagating what it calls “myths,” “taboos,” or “stigmas.” Then it goes on the offensive, deploying digital campaigns, social media, and artificial intelligence to normalize abortion and expand access to abortion pills. 

Which it then turns around and sells for a profit. 

DKT’s chief products are misoprostol, mifepristone, combined packages of both drugs, and Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) technologies. In addition, in 2017 it acquired from IPAS the global distribution rights to MVA technology, becoming the registered manufacturer, distributor, and international marketer of this technology for governments, NGOs, UNFPA, and the private sector.

We have already described how DKT has eclipsed the IPPF as the world’s largest provider of abortion.

But take a look at these astonishing numbers for the past decade.

Between 2016 and 2024, DKT reported cumulative direct sales of more than 189 million boxes of misoprostol, more than 40 million combined packages of mifepristone and misoprostol, and tens of millions of MVAs and cannulae. 

The true strength of DKT International lies not only in these numbers, but also in its increasingly sophisticated capacity to integrate financing, technology, logistics, training, marketing, distribution, and direct service provision. 

In other words, DKT runs an “abortion network” like no other.

DKT’s organizational structure has more arms than an octopus:

• DKT WomanCare Global functions as the international marketing arm for abortion and contraceptive products.
• Women First Digital manages digital platforms such as Safe2choose and How to Use the Abortion Pill, which offer guidance and remote support for medication abortions.
• Carafem, in the United States, combines telemedicine, physical clinics, mailing of pills, and assistance through artificial intelligence.

How all this works in practice was exposed by a Mexican journalist, Pablo Mier y Terán, who posed as a woman who found herself unexpectedly pregnant.

He documented step by step how the network works, from first digital contact and remote guidance, to identity verification and home delivery, resulting in the delivery of a box of illegal mifepristone tablets at his doorstep.

It is important to understand that DKT International does not merely promote abortion. It also organizes it, finances it, distributes it, trains personnel to perform it, digitizes it, and inserts it into commercial and health systems in multiple countries.

It is a highly specialized transnational network that combines ideology, technology, logistics, and market forces within a single operational structure with a single aim: to maximize the numbers of abortions worldwide.

This is the face of abortion in the 21st century.