WATCH: CNN Promotes Illegal Abortion Scheme

CNN on Tuesday promoted an illegal abortion scheme that experts say could boost a dangerous black market for abortion pills.

CNN host Poppy Harlow interviewed the head of Plan C, a group that connects women with unregulated overseas pharmacies that mail chemical abortion pills to the United States—an illegal practice that skirts federal regulations. Elisa Wells, the cofounder of the group, encouraged women to obtain the pills without medical supervision or follow-up visit, even though chemical abortion pills have roughly four times the complication rate of surgical abortions.

"What I'm saying is in common practice, that most people are not doing the follow-up visit," Wells told Harlow. "They don't need them."

The group's website, however, admits it "cannot guarantee" the illegal pharmacies it refers "will be reliable."

Plan C's black-market network operates alongside the thriving FDA-regulated chemical abortion pill industry.