These women are here to teach others how to get out of a desperate situation. The videos below show them plunging down the stairs, falling into a fire hydrant and deliberately being hit by a car to abort their unwanted pregnancies.
Warning: some readers may find the clips in this article upsetting
These women may not be real but, for many women, the fear and desperation they portray is the horrifying reality.
The 'abortion tutorial' videos were actually made by campaign group Miles Chile, who want the government in Chile to relax the rules on abortion, which is banned in the country under any circumstances.
Chile is one of just four countries in the world to have such strict rules, and does not even allow abortions for women whose foetuses never had a chance of surviving the pregnancy.
Here's how to 'accidentally' miscarry by falling down the stairs:
Warning: some readers may find the clips in this article upsetting
The narrator, who appears to be heavily pregnant, calmly explains that you must go alone to carry about an abortion, and that you should tell just one person where you have gone in case you go unconscious after falling down the stairs.
In another clip, a Chilean woman explains how to get hit by a car as a way out of pregnancy.
The camera shakes as the woman appears to be hit by a vehicle and moans in pain.
A final video shows a woman explain how to break your high heels and then deliberately fall into a fire hydrant, stomach first, in the hope of terminating a pregnancy.
Each clip ends with the message "In Chile an accidental abortion is the only kind of abortion that is not considered a crime".
Miles Chile is campaigning to support the country's president, Michelle Bachelet, who is trying to relax the ban on abortion.
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