by Michael Robinson, TCW
WHEN the Government rushed through the approval of at-home abortion pills during the pandemic, it was sold as a temporary, compassionate measure.
Three years on, this so-called ‘emergency’ policy has quietly become permanent, leaving tens of thousands of women physically harmed, emotionally scarred and utterly alone.
According to data obtained through Freedom of Information requests by my former colleague and friend Kevin Duffy, more than 50,000 women have been hospitalised since 2020 following complications from at-home abortions.
Kevin, a former senior executive at Marie Stopes International, knows the industry from the inside. His findings confirm what the pro-life movement has long warned: that the ‘pills-by-post’ system is reckless, unsafe and driven more by ideology than by concern for women’s welfare.
One in 17 women who take abortion pills at home ends up in hospital. Behind that statistic lie human stories: women bleeding in their bathrooms, frightened and alone, unsure what is happening to their bodies.
What began as an ‘emergency’ has become a policy of abandonment, leaving women to face the physical and psychological aftermath of abortion without medical supervision, without support and without dignity.
The Government insists that abortion pills by post are ‘safe and effective’. But the evidence tells a different story, one of a hidden public health crisis.
The NHS does not publish transparent data on complications, and health authorities downplay the risks. Yet every hospital admission is a reminder that this policy has failed women, and continues to do so.