The actual number of abortion pill complications and the deaths preborn children from the abortion pill may never be fully known, due to underreporting. But some women have told their stories about their horrific and heartbreaking experiences. In addition, women have spoken out as part of the Silent No More Awareness campaign, suggesting a reality far removed from popular narratives of the abortion pill.
Those popular narratives from the abortion industry and the media claim the abortion pill is a ‘safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy.’ The euphemisms of ‘abortion’ and ‘pregnancy’ mask the fact that a human being is killed in a chemical abortion, and the severe risks to women are understated by abortion pill providers, including Planned Parenthood. A new study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), asserts that “serious adverse events” from the abortion pill mifepristone occur at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.
Patricia suffered “instant regret” and “excruciating pain”:
On February 20th, 2015, at 8.3 weeks, I took the abortion pill at a nearby clinic. I didn’t think much else of it, until it was time to take the four following pills the next day. That’s when the excruciating pain began. There were unbearable cramps, and something that felt as if they were contractions. That went on for hours until I felt a large lump leave me. Seconds later, I cried. I cried and couldn’t stop. I instantly regretted what I had just done, but I decided to put on a brave face because I ‘did the right thing for me’.
Melody said, “I took the abortion pill at home, alone, and it was the most painful and scary event I have ever experienced.”
Reddit user BackgroundPea7785’s photo of aborted baby at 9 weeks gestation (enlarged).
Gwen told everyone she’d had a miscarriage, and she was in disbelief over her own actions:
I went to the abortion clinic for the first time. I turned back and returned home without taking the pill. A week later, I returned to the clinic and took the pill. I don’t know what got into me; it was like I had no conscience. I didn’t consider I was carrying life inside me.
After taking the first pill, I felt relieved that I was no longer pregnant. After about 24 hours, it all set in. I felt my baby’s life leave me. I had believed that it was just a blob of tissue yet to become a life. But at that moment when the pill killed my baby, I felt life leave me. I felt empty and immediately I knew I had committed the unthinkable.
I had killed my own baby, my blood. My baby had given me so much purpose for the few weeks I was pregnant, and I was quick to end his/her life. I called the doctor at Marie Stopes and asked if I could change my mind. He said my baby had already died, and I had to take the second pill to expel the embryo. To me, it was more than an embryo, yet I was so quick to end a life.
I told my boyfriend that I no longer felt pregnant, and we should go to hospital, after I took the second abortion pill. I had no choice but to take the second pill as I knew I had already murdered my baby. He was alarmed and took me to hospital when I started bleeding.
Everyone at the hospital and my friends believed I had a miscarriage, only my sister knew I had an abortion, which I regret to this moment. I just couldn’t let people know I had ended the pregnancy. They were all excited about it, and I also didn’t believe what I had just done…
I hope His Grace will be sufficient enough for me because I am undeserving after ending a life. ABORTION IS MURDER, don’t do it, you will regret it. I am silent no more about my abortion. I regret my abortion, and I will never take a life again.
Alex thought the abortion pill was a “quick fix,” and found out she “couldn’t have been more wrong”:
When I was 19 I had an abortion because I thought that it would be a quick ‘fix’ and that I wasn’t financially ready to bear a child. However I couldn’t have been more wrong…
The abortion pill was the method I chose, and the effects of it were probably one of the worst pains I had felt in my life. It’s like the worst cramps you’ve ever had magnified by a million. I was in so much pain, even the pain medication they told me to take do nothing. I became physically sick. I had to vomit every hour. I was in the bathroom all day. I lost so much weight, I still can’t gain it back.
Immediately after the abortion I felt sadness and loneliness. I was scared to sleep alone. I just couldn’t stop crying. The second I did it, I wished I never had.
Stephanie was “all alone… thinking I was going to die” during her harrowing abortion pill experience:
I took the abortion pill and was told it was going to be like a menstrual period. The truth was that I had cramps so severe I fainted multiple times and for hours I had the worst pain I had ever experienced. I was bleeding so much, and I was all alone, honestly thinking I was going to die.
The horrific and heartbreaking alleged experiences cited above shatter the culture’s popular narrative that the abortion pill is “safe and effective.” The abortion pill is not safe for the preborn child, whose life is cruelly and senselessly taken before its time, and it is not safe for the mother who ingests the pill and deals with the consequences, often alone.
Live Action founder and president Lila Rose stated in a recent press release, “The abortion pill is not medicine. It is a lethal drug that kills an innocent child and endangers her mother…. It is reckless, it is violent, and it must end. Mifepristone should not merely be regulated — it must be pulled from the market and banned outright.”
