A woman who claims she was given the abortion pill (mifepristone) after experiencing a miscarriage has taken to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share her story, with others quickly chiming in to say they, too, had undergone similar horrors.
The woman, Lizzie, claimed that she was prescribed mifepristone for the purpose of attempting to expel the body of her deceased preborn child after having a miscarriage. “I had no idea what I was in for, it wasn’t explained to me,” she wrote, adding, “I didn’t realize how bad it would hurt and how scary it would be.” She shared her story in response to a tweet from Planned Parenthood urging the abortion pill to be widely and easily available.
What Lizzie described about experiencing labor implies that she may have also received a second drug: misoprostol. When someone undergoes a chemical abortion, they are given two drugs — mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone, which effectively starves the preborn baby of the oxygen and nutrients she needs to survive. Typically one to two days later, the woman takes misoprostol, which induces contractions, leading to the expulsion of the child’s body.
“I continued to bleed uncontrollably for days and ended up losing consciousness in the bathroom due to blood loss,” Lizzie said. “Thank God my husband got me into the car and drove me the 45 min it takes to get to the emergency room where he said I was I was barely conscious , vomiting and unable to breathe properly, among other things I will not mention.”
In the emergency room, doctors realized Lizzie had a retained placenta, which was causing the extreme hemorrhaging — and she was told that they explained this was a common occurrence with the abortion pill. “[M]y body would have continued to bleed… until I was unalive, had I not been taken to the hospital,” she said. “So on top of that trauma of seeing what I saw, I was literally dying from this medication.”
But there was still more trauma to come for Lizzie.
“When my husband took me home and I saw the passenger seat where he put me to go to the hospital, I was shocked I was alive, as it looked like [the] scene of a homicide, and had it been for an abortion, not a miscarriage, it would have been,” she wrote, and added, “They send young girls home with this medication without the consent of their parents. Young girls are scared to be in trouble and may not have the courage to tell their parents something is wrong.”
She concluded, “I hate Planned Parenthood, they don’t care about anything but their money.”
Other commenters responded with similar experiences. “The exact same thing happened to my wife (except that we had to be transferred to another hospital and she had to have a D&C),” one person said.
Another wrote, “Took this for my miscarriage. It was horrific. I was collapsed on the bathroom floor for hours. The [doctor’s] office made it sound like the best option. I had no idea. Never again.”
Still another person responded, “I was also prescribed this after a miscarriage. It wasn’t as traumatic as your experience but it was terrifying and painful. No one warned me either. Giving this out like candy is heartbreaking to me.”
And yet another woman who experienced a miscarriage said, “I took it for my second miscarriage. I bled so hard, had uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea. The pain was horrible. My husband called 911 and I went by ambulance to the hospital. I finally passed everything at the hospital. Horrific.”
Too often, women are told that the abortion pill regimen (mifepristone and misoprostol) is easy and safe, and is akin to having a slightly heavier period. Planned Parenthood blithely describes it as causing women to feel nothing more than “tired or crampy for a day or so.” But the countless stories from traumatized women of what chemical abortions are truly like indicate a far more horrific experience — and women deserve to know the truth.
