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vomiting and diarrhea during the actual abortion than did surgical patients … Post-abortion pain occurred in 77.1% of mifepristone patients compared with only 10.5% of surgical patients.” ECF No 1-13 at 24. And before the approval, an FDA medical officer recognized the “medical regimen had more adverse events, particularly bleeding, than did surgical abortion. Failure rates exceeded those for surgical abortion … This is a serious potential disadvantage of the medical method.” Id. at 23 (emphasis added).
Other studies show eighty-three percent of women report that chemical abortion “changed” them — and seventy-seven percent of those women reported a negative change.[1] Thirty-eight percent of women reported issues with anxiety, depression, drug abuse, and suicidal thoughts because of the chemical abortion.[2] Bleeding from a chemical abortion, unlike surgical abortion, can last up to several weeks.[3] And the mother seeing the aborted human “appears to be a difficult aspect of the medical termination process which can be distressing, bring home the reality of the event and may influence later emotional adaptation.”[4] “For example, one woman was surprised and saddened to see that her aborted baby ‘had a head, hands, and legs’ with ‘[d]efined fingers and toes.’” ECF No. 1 at 21. The entire abortion process takes place within the mother’s home, without physician oversight, potentially leading to undetected ectopic pregnancies, failure of rH factor incompatibility detection, and misdiagnosis of gestational age — all leading to severe or even fatal
- ↑ See Katherine A. Rafferty & Tessa Longbons, #AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the Communicative Tensions in Women’s Medication Abortion Narratives, 36 Health Comm. 1485, 1485–94 (2021), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2020.1770507.
- ↑ Id.
- ↑ After Mifepristone: When bleeding will start and how long will it last?, Women on Web, https://www.womenonweb.org/en/page/484/when-will-you-start-bleeding-and-howlong-will-it-last. See also ECF No. 1-28 at 25 (“Up to 8% of all subjects may experience some type of bleeding for 30 days or more.”).
- ↑ Pauline Slade et al., Termination of Pregnancy: Patient’s Perception of Care, 27 J. of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care 72, 76 (2001).
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