By Bonnie Finnerty, Education Director
Two red lines. She sunk into a sea of panic. Fear blinded her.
She called the clinic, but no physician would see her in person. Rather, she was given a Telemed appointment with a doctor via computer.
Within an hour, two pills were ready, a “lifeline” amidst the waves that tossed her about.
No one will ever have to know. It’s early, just a clump of tissue. This is safe. This is easy. This will give me my future back.
She believed all that. She wanted to believe all that. Reality said otherwise.
The excruciating cramping induced tears to rain down her face. The bleeding seemed interminable, weakening her until all she could do was lay on the cold, tiled floor.
For weeks, not days, the agony lasted. She was never more alone.
No one had told her.
No one told her that the “tissue” she’d pass would have a tiny nose and upper lip.
No one explained she’d deliver a tiny fragile human into a toilet, an image she could never unsee.
She was further along than suspected. But a doctor never examined her. He simply prescribed the abortion drug via computer.
Who is she?
She is any woman in crisis who turns to the abortion industry. A daughter, a sister, a wife, a friend. And she is in danger.
As more surgical facilities close, chemical abortions steadily rise, ensuring the strong profit margin of the abortion industry. Profit at the expense of desperate young women who’ve received little information, even less counseling, and no examination.
Three abortion facilities in Pennsylvania have applied for telemedicine status, one of which failed its recent inspection.
Abortions are not sinus infections. Antibiotics are not equivalent to drugs that kill and expel a fetus. And put a woman’s life at risk.
With no physical examination, an ectopic pregnancy goes undetected. So do twins. So does any undiagnosed medical condition that could endanger her life.
Had she gone to a Pregnancy Resource Center, someone would have held her hand, wiped her tears, given her options, offered her hope. She would have been told about the Abortion Pill Reversal. Her child might be alive today. She could live at peace with her decision.
But the “ease” of a Telemed abortion, the temptation to hide a secret, the myth that this would be easy and even “good” for her, all these coalesced into an irreversible decision. A tragic decision.
This is the next “generation” of abortion that not only kills the next generation, but threatens the present one.
Please take action today. If we don’t, blood will be on all our hands.
Legislative alert: Call your PA state Senator today to urge them to support the House Amended Version of the Telemedicine Bill 857 which would prohibit Telemed Abortions. Find your legislator here.