Abortion pills: From the back street to the bathroom
by Philippa Taylor, The Conservative Woman:
Lesley Regan, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), is delighted at the news that women will be able to self-administer abortion pills in their own homes. She is on record as claiming that having an abortion is no different to having a bunion removed.
Ironically, with this change she has been campaigning for, women will soon realise abortion is definitely not the same as removing a bunion when they see the baby they have to flush down the toilet.
One young girl describes her own experience of having a medical abortion at home: ‘I had to go from two appointments for the abortion on the Thursday and the Saturday. I took the first pill and then went back on the Saturday for the second. I think the best way of describing what happened next is to read out a bit from my boyfriend’s version of events:
The day she took the final pill and came back to my flat to wait for it to pass truly drew a new line in the sand. The hours of pain she suffered, it utterly ripped me apart to see her writhing in agony, interspersed with trips to the toilet as the process started. It culminated in one trip from which she didn’t return, all I heard was sobs, drained of energy she couldn’t even cry with the force the pain deserved. I soon discovered that it wasn’t the pain the sobs were for, it was for what she had seen in the toilet. A recognisable shape. Then flushed away.’
But say we ignore any possible emotional damage to women (that not all will experience, of course) and instead look at the claims being made that medical abortions are safe and that self-administering the abortion pill is progress for women. What does the peer-reviewed evidence show us?
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