{"id":291190,"date":"2023-05-16T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=291190"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:13:19","slug":"tami-seeing-baby-abortion-pill-blob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tami-seeing-baby-abortion-pill-blob\/","title":{"rendered":"Tami saw her baby after taking abortion pill: &#8216;It was not just a blob&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In talking about her experience taking the abortion pill, Tami laments that she was not given any options when she visited the abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did not offer to show me an ultrasound image of my baby,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I was not given any pregnancy resources or told about adoption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She notes that she was also misled about what the experience would be like.\u00a0&#8220;I was told that I would experience slight cramping and bleeding and pass some blood clots, but no more than a normal menstrual cycle \u2014 it was nothing like they had told me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tami says she sat on the toilet after feeling an intense urge to push. &#8220;I looked down and I screamed,&#8221; she recounts. &#8220;It was not just a blob of tissue. I had given birth to what looked like a fully formed, intact, 14-week-old fetus covered in blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqXqGDXFkvg\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>She describes holding her baby boy in her arms and crying, but says she can&#8217;t remember what she did with his body after that. Following the abortion, she says she just kept &#8220;bleeding and bleeding and bleeding,&#8221; so she called the facility and they advised her to go to the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>The abortion pill is a two-step process involving the drugs mifepristone, which starves the baby of nutrients, and misoprostol, which causes the mother to go into labor and deliver the baby&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gnEHZiud8dg\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though it is currently approved for use in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, stories like Tami&#8217;s show that some women are taking it much later, causing them to deliver a more fully-formed child in the process. This has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-trauma-taking-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lasting trauma<\/a> for many mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Tami&#8217;s experience of needing to visit the emergency room following the abortion pill procedure is also not unusual. A <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/telabortion-abortion-pill-study-increased-complications-er\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 study<\/a> found that as many as six percent of \u201cknown outcomes\u201d from the abortion pill were severe enough to result in emergency room or urgent care visits \u2014 a striking statistic, especially considering that most abortion-pill related complications go <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-complications-uk-mirror-us-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unreported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tami ends by recounting the profound negative impact the abortion had on her life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time afterward was not good,&#8221; she explains. &#8220;For about eight years, I dealt with alcoholism, divorce, suicidal thoughts, rage-filled outbursts, and debilitating depression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? 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