A British woman said she almost died after a botched abortion left tissue, likely parts of her baby’s body, inside her womb and caused her to bleed for more than three months.
The 37-year-old from Middlesbrough, Teesside, England, shared her story with Teesside Live after she noticed two recent failed inspection reports at the abortion facility. She said she does not want the same thing — or worse — to happen to other women.
In early 2018, the woman, who is not named in the report, said her doctor referred her to a BPAS abortion facility in Middlesbrough after she found out she was pregnant. The woman said she wanted an abortion because she was struggling with health problems.
At eight weeks of pregnancy, she said BPAS gave her an abortion pill at the facility and another to take later at home. Over the next two weeks, she said she felt like something was not right and kept calling the abortion facility. However, she said they repeatedly reassured her that what she was going through was normal, and eventually she felt something pass, according to the report.
She kept bleeding for three months, but the abortion facility dismissed it as an “extra long period,” she continued.
Here’s more from the report:
After she started to feel ill, she went back and she was scanned at the clinic, she says. The weather was very bad at the time and she says she was told some staff hadn’t been able to get in so a sister would look at the scan results later. They called and told her there was some retained tissue but nothing to worry about. But then things took a turn for the worse.
“… I continued bleeding but I had polycystic ovaries anyway and thought it was maybe that. Then I was shopping one day in Asda and I started shaking, sweat was dripping off my face, I didn’t feel right. I went and sat in the car, phoned my GP … My blood pressure was through the roof so they sent me straight to hospital.”
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Doctors discovered that she still had “tissue” with “its own blood supply” in her womb, meaning her unborn baby possibly was still alive or parts of the baby’s body were still inside her, the report continues.
“The doctor said they were surprised I wasn’t critically ill in hospital. It had just been left all that time, it could have caused sepsis,” she said.
They referred her back to BPAS, which gave her more abortion drugs, according to the report.
Though all that happened four years ago, the woman said she felt compelled to share her story now after noticing that the same BPAS that botched her abortion recently failed two inspections.
According to Teesside Live, inspectors from the British Care Quality Commission found multiple deficiencies at the abortion facility within the past year.
In one particularly alarming finding, last August, inspectors said BPAS staff gave the abortion drug mifepristone to five women and then made them travel to another abortion facility because no doctor was available to finish their abortions, according to the report.
Another more recent inspection found other deficiencies, including a lack of adequate staff and failures to properly label medication, the report states. The inspectors did note that the facility has made several improvements since the August inspection.
Still, the woman said she is concerned about other women’s lives being put at risk.
“I can talk about it and not cry now but it felt like a punishment for the decision I’d made,” she said of her botched abortion. “There just seemed to be no responsibility for it. I saw the story about the clinic and the ‘requires improvement’ rating and I felt like I needed to open my mouth. It felt like a kick in the teeth after what happened. I am a grown woman, I have children, I knew something wasn’t right but what if somebody else thinks that’s normal? I wanted to say what’s happened to me in case my story helps someone else.”
In a statement, BPAS said it is working to improve its abortion practice and provide “safe, high-quality, accessible abortion care to all who need it.”
Abortions are not health care, however. Their purpose is to intentionally and unnecessarily kill an unborn baby, and sometimes they injure or kill mothers, too.
A British mother, Sarah Dunn, 31, and her unborn baby died in 2020 after she took supposedly “safe” abortion pills, according to Lancashire Live.
In the United States alone, the FDA has linked the abortion drug mifepristone to at least 26 women’s deaths and 4,000 serious complications between 2000 and 2018. However, under President Barack Obama, the FDA stopped requiring that non-fatal complications from mifepristone be reported. So the numbers almost certainly are much higher.
In the UK, government health data showed a massive hospitalization rate due to abortion drugs after the government began allowing mail-order abortion drugs in 2020. According to the data, more than 10,000 women who received the abortion drugs by mail needed hospital treatment, or about one in 17 women.
Mifepristone is an abortion drug used to block the pregnancy hormone progesterone and kill unborn babies up to about 10 weeks of pregnancy. Typically, it is taken with a second drug, misoprostol, to induce labor and expel the baby’s body. However, sometimes the drugs do not work, and abortion facilities perform a surgical abortion to remove the aborted baby’s remains.
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