Woman Says She Nearly Died After Taking the Abortion Pill

Every so often—but not too often—the Abortion Industrial Complex will kinda, sorta grudgingly concede that taking mifepristone, the “abortion pill,” is no walk in the park. When they do, they will quickly brush over the cramping, the bleeding, the vomiting and diarrhea that women typically experience as they lay in their bathrooms in agony.  It’s almost—almost–as if the Abortion Industry is saying “You pays your money and you takes your chances.”

But they never, ever talk about deaths associated with mifepristone. Death is That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Occasionally, a contributor for a “mainstream publication” will be allowed to write something like “I nearly died after taking abortion drugs — they don’t belong in the mail,” as Shanyce Thomas did this week for The Hill.

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Referring to the case before the Supreme Court that challenged the FDA cavalierly ending safety requirements for women taking mifepristone, Thomas writes

As soon as I read the breaking news, memories flooded back to me of the hospital room where I nearly died at age 19.

No number of slogans or activists could help me in that moment. What I remember is the blood, the pain and the terrifying realization that when everything went wrong, I was completely on my own.  ….

I believed what I had been told — that the process was simple and safe, like having a heavy period. What happened instead nearly cost me my life.

In 1,035 words, Thomas takes us through her journey. It began when she found out she was pregnant. Thomas went to the abortion center and was told what she would experience “was like a heavy period”; to when she went home and “the pain quickly became unbearable. I could barely move”; to when she returned to the abortion center and following an ultrasound was told “everything looked fine — that there were no remaining parts left in me and I should be okay”; to when she was so pale and weak the next morning that her dad took her to the emergency room where “Doctors there ran tests and quickly discovered that parts of the pregnancy were still inside me. I needed emergency surgery. Soon after, I went into a septic shock.

“I don’t remember much of what happened next,” Thomas writes. “I only know what doctors told me afterward. I spent about a month and a half in a coma as they worked to save my life.”

And this was under the “old system.”

Today I’m grateful to be alive. I am working in healthcare and studying to become a nurse. But the experience left me with questions that I think everyone should also be asking. Because what happened to me took place under the old system — the one with more oversight. I had an in-person visit, an ultrasound and at least some medical supervision, and things still went wrong when I took the abortion pills. 

Today, many women can obtain the same drugs through online visits — sometimes without so much as seeing someone on a screen. The pills are then delivered in the mail. 

If I nearly died despite seeing a provider in person, it is important to ask how much more risk women face when black-box drugs are ordered online and taken at home without any in-person screening.

An incredibly powerful testimony from a woman who knows the truth about “chemical abortions” and wrote this column because “women deserve to know the full picture before taking drugs that can affect their bodies and their futures.”

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.