{"id":227682,"date":"2020-07-30T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227682"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:23:27","slug":"emily-abortion-pill-worst-decision-reversal-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/emily-abortion-pill-worst-decision-reversal-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful for abortion pill reversal, Emily says taking abortion pill was ‘the worst decision’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emily’s story of her experience with abortion pills<\/a> was traumatizing, but her experience with abortion pill reversal gave her life new meaning and hope.<\/p>\n

At 17, while still in high school, Emily realized she was pregnant. “I told my boyfriend at the time, but he told me the only choice is abortion,” she said in a video for Live Action, explaining that she considered the different scenarios. Because she didn’t want to tell her parents she was even sexually active, Emily said she “went down to Planned Parenthood, and they pretty much brought me to see a counselor for a few minutes, but the counselor didn’t show, like, models of a baby and the age, or what they look like at that stage of pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

Emily explained that the staff at Planned Parenthood didn’t discuss options with her, or attempt to alleviate any factors leading her to think abortion was her only choice.<\/p>\n

“It was just like, ‘OK, you’re pregnant, what do you want to do? Your parents don’t know? Oh, right, abortion’s the right answer, ok,'” she recalled. “So they give you the pills for it. The first half of the pills you have to take in front of them, and then you go home and you take the other ones, like, 24 hours later. So I took the second pill at home.” Having to go through an abortion at home, by herself and in secret, was devastating.<\/p>\n

“I bled a lot. I saw, like, a lot of stuff coming out, and like — it was traumatizing,” Emily said. “Looking back on it, I can’t believe that I did that. I can’t believe I put my body through that, or I risked all those things…. you know, I miss that person that I didn’t keep.”<\/p>\n

Despite claims from the abortion industry that the abortion pill regimen is “safer than Tylenol<\/a>,” there are numerous risks. According to at least one study, an estimated five to seven percent<\/a> of women will need follow-up surgery, in addition to other potential side effects<\/a>. Less serious side effects include cramping, nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, but life-threatening complications are known to happen also, such as uterine hemorrhaging, viral infections, sepsis, vaginitis, and even death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Emily’s case, she went through all of this alone, with no support, and without her parents’ knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n