{"id":67,"date":"2022-10-11T00:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T00:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=67"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:41:38","slug":"i-regret-it-every-day-survey-of-14000-women-who-had-chemical-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Regret It Every Day\u2019 – Survey of 14,000 women who had chemical abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The entertainment and legacy media present abortion as empowering, but that\u2019s not the feeling that impelled one mother to agree to a medication abortion. \u201cI was scared to death,\u201d she told researchers. Even five later, the woman \u2014 who still describes herself as \u201cpro-choice\u201d \u2014 says she regrets her chemical abortion. \u201cNow I wish I would\u2019ve just faced it all and had my baby,\u201d she said. \u201cI regret it still to this day and probably still will for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Her words echo too many other women who took the two-pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol, called a \u201cmedical\u201d or \u201cchemical\u201d abortion to distinguish it from surgical abortion. Nearly two out of three women who had a medication abortion say they would have benefited from talking to someone about the trauma of their abortion experience, but only 24% sought out help, according to a study<\/a> of 14,000 women conducted by the group Support After Abortion<\/a>. The gaping disparity may reflect the fact that 82% of post-abortive women did not know where they could find post-abortion counseling. As the study notes, an unknown number of women are now paying the price.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany were traumatized by medication abortion, an experience they said was far more painful, physically and emotionally, than they had imagined,\u201d the survey noted.<\/p>\n

The first of the two pills blocks progesterone, cutting off nourishment to the child in utero, while the second stimulates contractions to force the child\u2019s dead body out of his or her mother, usually into a toilet. The fetal remains \u201ccan be flushed down the lavatory or wrapped in tissue, placed in a small plastic bag and put in the dustbin,\u201d explained<\/a> a British abortion provider. \u201cIf she looks carefully, she might be able to count the fingers and toes,\u201d said<\/a> Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who later became pro-life, in a video produced by Live Action.<\/p>\n

The expectant mother undergoes this alone, often without an in-person medical check-up. Support After Abortion noted that women found bearing the responsibility of presiding over and disposing of their child\u2019s remains \u201cextremely distressing,\u201d \u201cisolating,\u201d and \u201ctraumatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[I] just feel bad. I let it bleed out of me like nothing,\u201d said one woman. One-third of women (34%) who had a chemical abortion \u201creported an adverse change in themselves, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and thoughts of suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I didn\u2019t deserve to be a mom. It got to the point where I wasn\u2019t eating. I couldn\u2019t go to work. I couldn\u2019t watch my kids,\u201d said Chantal Gates in her book, \u201cUnraveled Roots: Exposing the Hidden Causes of Damaging Behaviors<\/a>,\u201d published in 2020. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe I had done this to a child I actually cared about and wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least one post-abortive woman committed suicide, and seven died of overdoses\/drug-related deaths, after undergoing a medical abortion, according to FDA data<\/a>. Barely half of the 26 known deaths related to medication abortion (54%) between 2000 and 2019 came from natural causes. But the number may be far higher, as researchers say the results are often miscoded as a miscarriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpts below the link. The entertainment and legacy media present abortion as empowering, but that\u2019s not the feeling that impelled one mother to agree to a medication abortion. \u201cI was scared to death,\u201d she told researchers. Even five later, the woman \u2014 who still describes herself as \u201cpro-choice\u201d \u2014 says she regrets her chemical abortion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}