{"id":243289,"date":"2021-04-18T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243289"},"modified":"2021-04-14T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:02:39","slug":"pieces-child-left-inside-physical-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pieces-child-left-inside-physical-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pieces of my child had been left inside of me’: Women tell of physical complications after abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the film “Life After Abortion<\/a>,” post-abortive women tell their stories.\u00a0Many of the women testified about suffering physical complications after their abortions, which is something that is not discussed by mainstream media. Only pro-life media tends to report on abortion complications and injuries<\/a> \u2014 and the stark truth is that only 28 states<\/a> even require abortion complications to be reported. One woman wrote of her frightening experience:<\/p>\n

I started cramping very hard. I was hemorrhaging. I had a fever. I was getting delirious. And my dad, being a pharmacist, went to his store and got me more drugs. I pretty much spent that weekend recovering from the infection\u2026 I remember a lot of pain, a lot of crying, and a lot of hurt and confusion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another woman suffered complications and called the abortion facility, only to be told, \u201cYou\u2019re not our problem anymore.\u201d Too embarrassed to call her own doctor, she silently endured the horrible cramps and heavy bleeding.<\/p>\n

Another woman discussed how she hemorrhaged:<\/p>\n

The bleeding continued, and it was so bad that one day when I was at work and I stood up from my desk, blood was running down my legs and into my sandals. <\/em><\/p>\n

I drove home to tell my parents that I needed to go to the hospital, and as I knocked on the door and waited for my mom to come to the door, she opened the door, and she proceeded to see blood all over me and her first reaction was of sheer terror. She thought someone had shot me. She and my father took me to the hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n

This woman needed blood transfusions and emergency surgery. She says:<\/p>\n

Pieces of my child had actually been left inside of me. I had developed an infection which led to the bleeding. And then my doctor proceeded to tell me that I could have died from the infection, I could have bled to death, or he might’ve even had to perform a hysterectomy, which I could’ve never had children.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Inspection report: Abortion facilities in over 25 states had untrained staff<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another woman had a horrific experience \u2014 she saw the body of her child:<\/p>\n

Two days after the abortion I was sitting at the place where I lived\u2026 and started cramping severely. And so, I went into the bathroom\u2026 to wet myself, and it felt as though I had passed something. And when I looked down, in my hand was my baby.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I remember seeing the hands and the feet, and that the skin was translucent. And tiny \u2013 tiny little thing. And where the eyes were forming. And I was so horrified that I dropped the baby and flushed the toilet because I couldn’t imagine that that’s what I had just seen. And I ran to the phone to call the abortion facility to tell them what had happened. And all they had to say to me was, “Well, that’s too bad.” And then they hung up on me.<\/em><\/p>\n

This woman suffered extreme emotional trauma.<\/p>\n