Planned Parenthood blog says preborn babies look 'similar to dryer lint'

In its ongoing effort to lie to women and dehumanize preborn humans to make money, an April 10 post to Planned Parenthood's blog tells women that "early in pregnancy," their children are merely "pregnancy tissue" that "looks similar to dryer lint."

Key Takeaways:

• A blog post from Planned Parenthood tells women that they can tell their chemical abortion is complete when they see "pregnancy tissue" that "looks similar to dryer lint."

• This lie puts women's health and lives at risk.

• Women have shared how Planned Parenthood lied to them about the abortion pill experience and the development of their preborn children, leaving them traumatized when they see the truth.

The Details:

For the Planned Parenthood blog, Attia answered the question: "How can I tell if my abortion worked?"

Attia claimed that abortion pills are "very effective at ending early pregnancies" and that they "work 87-99 out of 100 times, depending on how far along your pregnancy is and how much medicine you take." (Essentially, this hints that the abortion pill shows a possible failure rate of up to 13%, even in early pregnancy.)

She admitted that women will sometimes need to have a second abortion surgically, which she downplays. In addition, a recent report found that nearly 11% of women who take the abortion pill will suffer severe adverse events.

If a woman "is worried their medication abortion didn't work because they're expecting to see more blood, tissue, or large clumps to come out," no need to worry, said Attia, because "it's very likely that all you'll see is what looks like a period." She added:

This is because in pregnancy, the pregnancy tissue looks similar to dryer lint, which, mixed in with blood, is often not very noticeable.

This is a blatant lie that could cause women to wrongly believe their abortion has been completed when it hasn't, leaving them at serious risk of a deadly infection.

In addition, likening human beings to "dryer lint" is dehumanizing, insulting, and discriminatory. Millions of women who have suffered the grief of miscarriage and abortion and witnessed the humanity of their children are being gaslit by Planned Parenthood with this statement. And it's reducing children to what most of us consider to be garbage.

Below is an embryoscopy image from the Endowment for Human Development of the face and hands of a baby at seven weeks and four days post fertilization (nine weeks and four days LMP):

But Planned Parenthood takes the deception a step further. A link in the blog sends readers to a 2022 heavily debunked (by even pro-abortion individuals) article in The Guardian, which showed altered images of aborted children supplied by the MYA Network. It claimed the images were of "pregnancy tissue" or a "gestational sac" with "no visible embryo." In reality, the human embryos had been removed before the photographs were taken.

The images even contradict the real images of an embryo that The Guardian shared back in 2009:

OB/GYN Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, called the MYA Network images “intentionally misleading,” adding, “They state that they are pictures of gestational sacs, ignoring the inconvenient fact that in pregnancy, the gestational sac surrounds the embryonic or fetal human being — which have clearly been removed before these photos were taken.”

Planned Parenthood's claim isn't a slight error or a simple misunderstanding of the early stages of fetal development. It is a deliberate attempt to trick women. Planned Parenthood has fought against informed consent laws that would require it to accurately inform women about fetal development.

Why It Matters:

With its repeated lies, Planned Parenthood clearly does not care about women, seeks only to make money off of their bodies and the bodies of their children, and sees women as unworthy of the truth. It profits financially from pulling the wool over their eyes.

Countless women have shared the devastating aftermath of Planned Parenthood's lies about the abortion pill experience, including that it would be like a heavy period and that it would be too soon to see a baby. These women then went home to experience serious blood loss, the trauma of seeing and holding the bodies of their children, and the scary complications that are associated with the abortion pill.

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One woman, Nelle, explained that she went to Planned Parenthood and was given the abortion pill. She said, "The ENTIRE time I was there I was told LIES!  They said, ‘There are no real risks, this is like a period, light cramping, it’ll all be over within 2 days.'”

When she got home, however, she read the packet given to her that said she could bleed for three weeks. She noted:

...it hurt like crazy and I have never been more nauseated and in pain in my life. I was a sweaty, bloody, crying mess. The cramping was pretty bad for me but it was the fact of feeling the chunks fall out of you. I sat on the toilet and eventually put on a maxi pad and sat on the couch. It was about 3-4 hours of cramping until it came out.

She added:

I truly believe Planned Parenthood tricks young girls into getting these type [sic] of abortions solely to keep them running… They assure you there is literally zero risk and that it is quick, private, and like a period. Which is all a lie!…

Another woman, Christina, shared that she was given the abortion pill at Planned Parenthood and told by staff that she "wouldn't see anything" — meaning her baby’s body — just as it did in the blog post.

“They didn’t ever use the word baby,” she explained. “They always just said ‘it’ or ’tissue’ or ‘the process.’ They never said anything about the level of development. They did tell me it would be too small to see anything.”

It wasn't the "heavy period" she was told it would be. "It felt like hell," she said. She birthed her baby two hours after taking the second drug, misoprostol.

“When I turned around, there it was in the sac and everything.” said Christina. “I broke open the sac and held the helpless little baby in my hand. I cried and felt like I had just murdered someone so innocent. I regretted it 100% after that night.”

The Bottom Line:

Planned Parenthood's willingness to lie knows no bounds. It will continue to sell women abortion like any other shady business with a harmful product to sell.