{"id":288679,"date":"2023-04-06T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=288679"},"modified":"2023-04-07T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:41:20","slug":"abortion-pill-8-weeks-fingers-eyes-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-8-weeks-fingers-eyes-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"She took the abortion pill at 8 weeks and saw her baby: ‘I could see its fingers, its eyes, its feet’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In her YouTube video, a British post-abortive woman, who identifies herself as Megan Rhiann,<\/span> shared her story<\/span><\/a> of a “petrifying and traumatizing” abortion by pill. According to Megan, she received misinformation and a lack of counseling from the abortion facility, and experienced tremendous pain followed by the trauma of seeing her aborted child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Misinformation from a Chain of Abortion Facilities<\/span><\/h3>\n

Megan went to the Marie Stopes abortion chain. In an “educational” video, Marie Stopes<\/span> claims that the abortion pill<\/span><\/a> “stops the pregnancy from growing.”\u00a0<\/span>A<\/span> booklet about the abortion pill given to patients by Marie Stopes<\/span><\/a> admits women will \u201clikely\u201d experience “strong cramping” during their abortions, but “pain and bleeding is different for each person.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It also says the following about what the woman will see:<\/span><\/p>\n

[I]t would be expected for you to pass the pregnancy tissue and most people will pass blood clots\u2026 As the gestation increases the pregnancy tissue may be more recognisable but most people will not clearly see a fetus. At 9 weeks the fetus is 3-8cm long.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Lack of Counseling and Information at Marie Stopes<\/span><\/h3>\n

Megan complains that the abortion facility didn’t maintain patient privacy \u2014 she heard the names of other women who came for abortions. She also says they did an STD test that she never got the results of, even though she made her video two months after her abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Megan found it “horrible” that her boyfriend (the father of the baby) wasn’t allowed to go back with her to see the doctor. She says there was “barely any conversation” between her and the abortionist:<\/span><\/p>\n

The doctor was very abrupt, and she was obviously rushing, saying that she was an hour and a bit late. So, she wasn’t very helpful\u2026[S]he made me feel like a nuisance for asking what I’m actually swallowing. She didn’t say a single thing about any of [the pills].<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The abortionist asked Megan if this was her first abortion, and Megan answered yes. She says, “I thought after that, she’d give me a little bit of information about what was going to happen. But nothing happened\u2026 She didn’t say a word. She made me swallow all the pills.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The abortionist then put the second drug, misoprostol, into Megan’s vagina. Megan says this was painful, that the abortionist hurt her when inserting them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n