Article By Sarah Terzo
Many people have told their abortion pill stories online. One British woman made a YouTube video about taking the abortion pill.
Misinformation from a Chain of Abortion Facilities
Megan went to the abortion chain Marie Stopes. In an educational video, Marie Stopes claims that the abortion pill “stops the pregnancy from growing.”
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A booklet about the abortion pill given to patients by Marie Stopes admits women will “likely” experience “strong cramping” during their abortions, but “pain and bleeding is different for each person.”
It also says the following about what the woman will see:
[I]t would be expected for you to pass the pregnancy tissue and most people will pass blood clots… As the gestation increases, the pregnancy tissue may be more recognisable but most people will not clearly see a fetus. At 9 weeks the fetus is 3–8cm long.
Lack of Counseling and Information at Marie Stopes
Megan complains that the abortion facility didn’t maintain patient privacy — she heard the names of other women who came for abortions. She also says they did an STD test that she never got the results of, even though she made her video two months after her abortion.
Megan found it “horrible” that her boyfriend (the father of the baby) wasn’t allowed to go back with her to see the doctor.
She says there was “barely any conversation” between her and the doctor giving the pills (besides the abortion pill, the doctor gave Megan antibiotics and medication for pain):
The doctor was very abrupt, and she was obviously rushing, saying that she was an hour and a bit late. So, she wasn’t very helpful…[S]he made me feel like a nuisance for asking what I’m actually swallowing. She didn’t say a single thing about any of [the pills].
The doctor asked Megan if this was her first abortion, and Megan answered yes. She says, “I thought after that, she’d give me a little bit of information about what was going to happen. But nothing happened… She didn’t say a word. She made me swallow all the pills.”
The doctor then put the second drug, misoprostol, into Megan’s vagina. Megan says this was painful, that the abortionist hurt her by inserting them.
Unexpected Pain and Heavy Bleeding
Megan and her boyfriend then went to a restaurant, where Megan had severe cramps and started bleeding. She also experienced a painful leg cramp, which made her unable to walk.
The doctor gave Megan misinformation about how long it would take the pill to work, and she wasn’t expecting it to affect her so soon.
According to Megan, “[the abortionist] didn’t even say a thing about the [abdominal] cramping.” The doctor also didn’t warn Megan about the heavy bleeding she would endure, although she gave Megan a booklet that mentioned it.
At home, Megan spent hours on the toilet, bleeding heavily, having diarrhea, and “profusely” throwing up. She says, “I was expelling everything from everywhere. The blood was dropping like a f — faucet.”
Megan believes the vomiting and diarrhea were caused by the pain, and calls the abortion “the most painful thing I’ve ever gone through.”
But the worst was yet to come.
Seeing Her Fully Formed Aborted Baby
Megan says she was eight weeks along when she had her abortion. While walking to her bathroom, Megan felt her baby come out.
She describes what she saw when she pulled down her pants:
I saw my baby… My baby was basically fully formed. I could see its fingers, its eyes, its feet. It was a fully formed baby. I was not told that that would happen… I wasn’t told that the sac was see through. I wasn’t told anything…
[T]hat night will never leave my memory ….[T]his is going to be the most traumatic experience of my life ever.
Megan called her boyfriend, sobbing. It was after midnight. She says:
I had a full-on breakdown, because I sat on the other side of my bathroom against the door, not being able to even look in the general direction of my pad that had my baby in it… I didn’t know what to do. And it was horrible. And the fact that I saw the baby and having to flush it now… It didn’t seem right at all to me but did it.
Megan wasn’t told she would see a recognizable fetus/baby. Neither the abortionist nor the booklet she received gave her accurate information about fetal development, leaving her completely unprepared.
She says:, “[I]t’s only right that I be told and not have to find out through Google what’s going to happen to me and what I’m going to see. It should be told to me by my f — doctor, not Google.”
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