Thinking About the Abortion Pill? Facts and Risks You Should Know
If you’re staring at a positive pregnancy test and your stomach drops, it’s normal for you to think:
“I just need this to go away.”
Abortion
Abortion strongly linked to psychiatric hospitalization: new study of 1.2 million women
The risks associated with abortion remained elevated even after controlling for prior mental health, age, and poverty. But among women with prior mental health issues, psychiatric hospitalization was nine times more likely for those who had abortions. In contrast, among women without prior mental health issues, abortion was linked to only a 50% increased risk of psychiatric hospitalization.
Pressure to abort adds to mental health ramifications
The study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) found that over 60% of women who had an abortion report a high level of external pressure to abort from one or more source. The study also found that these same women report higher levels of subsequent mental health and quality of life issues.
Abortion Pill Reversal: Brittany’s Story
Pregnancy can bring about many emotions; sometimes excitement and fear can be conflated when a woman is left without ample support to contend with these feelings, and result in a heartbreaking decision.
Brittany found herself in this situation, and feeling she had no other choice she took the first abortion pill. Later she became convinced that God interceded on behalf of her baby.
Is ‘abortion pill reversal’ safe?
The mechanism of abortion pill reversal is essentially the same mechanism often used to prevent miscarriage… the hormone progesterone. Only in this case, it’s aimed at reversing the effects of the abortion pill regimen. If a woman decides after taking the first of the two drugs in the regimen (mifepristone) that she doesn’t want to go through with the abortion process, she may be able to try abortion pill reversal.
Abortion advocate Jennifer Lawrence: Having kids ‘changed my life… for the best’
In a recent interview, actress Jennifer Lawrence praised her positive experience with motherhood, despite how frequently she has advocated in favor of abortion.
When does a fetus develop a heartbeat?
Throughout a woman’s pregnancy, her baby undergoes many stages of development in the womb before being born, and among these milestones which indicate life is the fetal heartbeat. Through the use of ultrasounds, modern science can detect the waves of the baby’s heartbeat as early as three weeks after fertilization.
New report highlights concerns about abortion pill’s impact on water supply
Each year, about 700,000 aborted children’s remains enter the water systems, and water treatment plants are not designed to handle medical waste.
Women unprepared for abortion pill pain
The abortion pill is often described as a “safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy,” at least according to Planned Parenthood. But is it? Recently, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study that analyzed insurance data codes for over 865,000 cases in which women took mifepristone (the abortion pill) and found that “serious adverse events” for the drug occurred at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.
STUDY: Women suffer serious effects after taking abortion pill
A new, first-of-its-kind study asserts that serious adverse events from mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen, occur at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.