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A Nebraska woman is telling her harrowing story about hemorrhaging in her bathtub following a chemical abortion.
Haile McAnally was previously pro-abortion, but became pro-life after a horrifying abortion experience.
After taking abortion pills, she hemorrhaged in her bathtub and thought she was dying.
McAnally believes women are not being warned enough about the dangers of the abortion pill regimen.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, McAnally described her horrific chemical abortion.
She said that though she had always dreamed of being a mother, when she got pregnant, her boyfriend was not supportive.
"He asked me what I was gonna do about it and hung up the phone, and I haven't talked to him since," she said, and added that she was scared to raise a child alone.
The pro-abortion community, however, gave off an impression of supportive sisterhood.
"I remember seeing the pink signs everywhere and the marketing that says ... the sisterhood will take care of you," she said. "And as someone in that position where you're scared, and you are looking for answers somewhere, and you don't wanna be alone and being so young at the time, that was a very enticing message."
So McAnally went to an abortion facility, which she described as cold and dark, and was given abortion pills.
"They took my money, and they sent me back to this room where ... this doctor was going to walk me through everything that was going to happen that day. That's where the consent kind of happened, in that room, and he didn't know me from Adam. He really didn't ask about my background and anything medical that's ever happened," she said.
After signing the consent forms, she took the first pill at the abortion facility, and then went home to take the second pill as directed. At first, everything seemed like it was going as planned. She sat on the toilet and was bleeding, which she was told to expect.
But then, things began to get worse:
"[A]fter about two hours, I was still bleeding out. And I started feeling really weak. I knew that what was happening was not right, but I couldn't really comprehend what was going on."
At that point, she took herself into the bathtub, where she continued hemorrhaging — so much so, that she had to receive a blood transfusion.
"I just laid there and thought that was the moment that everything was over, and, partially, I felt like it was punishment for me making that decision.
But at the end of the day, I remember waking up, and I was in the hospital and my friend had come home, and she had realized that I was laying in the bathtub unconscious at the time, and she called 911, and I had a blood transfusion done."
This is just one example of how dangerous chemical abortions can be. And those dangers are amplified with the rise of mail-order, DIY abortions.
The FDA temporarily enabled abortion pill distribution by mail and expanded the REMS safety rules to limited mail-order pharmacy distribution in 2021; REMS was weakened even more by eliminating the in-person dispensing requirement, allowing the abortion pill to be permanently shipped by mail beginning in 2023.
Meanwhile, the abortion pill is frequently described as "safer than Tylenol." Yet as Live Action News' has explained:
A valid comparison of hospital visit frequency must account for the frequency with which both drugs are taken. Fortunately, this data is available. This 2016 study sought to analyze trends in acetaminophen-related adverse events, and tracked the rate of annual ER visits relative to annual sales of the drug. It found that, for the year 2012 (the most recent year covered by the study), there were 282.1 acetaminophen-related ER visits for every 1 (one) million units sold. Assuming typical dosage to be equivalent to two tablets, this means that .056% of doses sold resulted in a hospital visit (282.1/500,000 = .00056).
But even this number is inflated compared to mifepristone’s hospital visit rate, because it includes children and people who intentionally overdosed, populations which are irrelevant to mifepristone’s calculations.
And what is mifepristone’s hospital visit rate?
A recent study conducted by the abortion industry itself found an ER and urgent care visit rate of 6%. That’s 107 times greater than the rate for acetaminophen/Tylenol, which again, is actually a low number if we were to compare equivalent populations.
An analysis of a large insurance database found adverse events occurred at a rate 22 times higher than what has been reported on the FDA label. Another study found that chemical abortions are four times more dangerous than first-trimester surgical abortions; a study from Ireland found 12% of women had to go to the emergency room for bleeding or infection, while an additional 16% suffered incomplete abortions after taking the abortion pill.
Another study found that women were not adequately warned or prepared for how painful the chemical abortion process would be.
McAnally now identifies as pro-life, and is speaking out to warn other women about abortion.
"Planned Parenthood told us that this is what is women's empowerment. This is what women do when they can't handle it. They take this route, and they don't acknowledge the pain it causes," she said.
"The same pills I took under direction of medical professionals, they can be shipped anywhere at any time. I can't imagine being a young woman in college and maybe finding herself in this position, ordering these pills online, not knowing what kind of maybe pre-medical condition she has, and she finds herself in the same position."
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·Woman says she hemorrhaged in bathtub after taking abortion pill
A Nebraska woman is telling her harrowing story about hemorrhaging in her bathtub following a chemical abortion.
Haile McAnally was previously pro-abortion, but became pro-life after a horrifying abortion experience.
After taking abortion pills, she hemorrhaged in her bathtub and thought she was dying.
McAnally believes women are not being warned enough about the dangers of the abortion pill regimen.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, McAnally described her horrific chemical abortion.
She said that though she had always dreamed of being a mother, when she got pregnant, her boyfriend was not supportive.
"He asked me what I was gonna do about it and hung up the phone, and I haven't talked to him since," she said, and added that she was scared to raise a child alone.
The pro-abortion community, however, gave off an impression of supportive sisterhood.
"I remember seeing the pink signs everywhere and the marketing that says ... the sisterhood will take care of you," she said. "And as someone in that position where you're scared, and you are looking for answers somewhere, and you don't wanna be alone and being so young at the time, that was a very enticing message."
So McAnally went to an abortion facility, which she described as cold and dark, and was given abortion pills.
"They took my money, and they sent me back to this room where ... this doctor was going to walk me through everything that was going to happen that day. That's where the consent kind of happened, in that room, and he didn't know me from Adam. He really didn't ask about my background and anything medical that's ever happened," she said.
After signing the consent forms, she took the first pill at the abortion facility, and then went home to take the second pill as directed. At first, everything seemed like it was going as planned. She sat on the toilet and was bleeding, which she was told to expect.
But then, things began to get worse:
"[A]fter about two hours, I was still bleeding out. And I started feeling really weak. I knew that what was happening was not right, but I couldn't really comprehend what was going on."
At that point, she took herself into the bathtub, where she continued hemorrhaging — so much so, that she had to receive a blood transfusion.
"I just laid there and thought that was the moment that everything was over, and, partially, I felt like it was punishment for me making that decision.
But at the end of the day, I remember waking up, and I was in the hospital and my friend had come home, and she had realized that I was laying in the bathtub unconscious at the time, and she called 911, and I had a blood transfusion done."
This is just one example of how dangerous chemical abortions can be. And those dangers are amplified with the rise of mail-order, DIY abortions.
The FDA temporarily enabled abortion pill distribution by mail and expanded the REMS safety rules to limited mail-order pharmacy distribution in 2021; REMS was weakened even more by eliminating the in-person dispensing requirement, allowing the abortion pill to be permanently shipped by mail beginning in 2023.
Meanwhile, the abortion pill is frequently described as "safer than Tylenol." Yet as Live Action News' has explained:
A valid comparison of hospital visit frequency must account for the frequency with which both drugs are taken. Fortunately, this data is available. This 2016 study sought to analyze trends in acetaminophen-related adverse events, and tracked the rate of annual ER visits relative to annual sales of the drug. It found that, for the year 2012 (the most recent year covered by the study), there were 282.1 acetaminophen-related ER visits for every 1 (one) million units sold. Assuming typical dosage to be equivalent to two tablets, this means that .056% of doses sold resulted in a hospital visit (282.1/500,000 = .00056).
But even this number is inflated compared to mifepristone’s hospital visit rate, because it includes children and people who intentionally overdosed, populations which are irrelevant to mifepristone’s calculations.
And what is mifepristone’s hospital visit rate?
A recent study conducted by the abortion industry itself found an ER and urgent care visit rate of 6%. That’s 107 times greater than the rate for acetaminophen/Tylenol, which again, is actually a low number if we were to compare equivalent populations.
An analysis of a large insurance database found adverse events occurred at a rate 22 times higher than what has been reported on the FDA label. Another study found that chemical abortions are four times more dangerous than first-trimester surgical abortions; a study from Ireland found 12% of women had to go to the emergency room for bleeding or infection, while an additional 16% suffered incomplete abortions after taking the abortion pill.
Another study found that women were not adequately warned or prepared for how painful the chemical abortion process would be.
McAnally now identifies as pro-life, and is speaking out to warn other women about abortion.
"Planned Parenthood told us that this is what is women's empowerment. This is what women do when they can't handle it. They take this route, and they don't acknowledge the pain it causes," she said.
"The same pills I took under direction of medical professionals, they can be shipped anywhere at any time. I can't imagine being a young woman in college and maybe finding herself in this position, ordering these pills online, not knowing what kind of maybe pre-medical condition she has, and she finds herself in the same position."
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Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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