by Bonnie Finnerty, Education Director
The two red lines sent her into a state of panic.
A call to Planned Parenthood confirmed she need not come in for an examination. A tele-med appointment would now suffice. And it would cost less.
Within an hour, the prescription was ready. Two little pills would be her “lifeline.”
No one will ever know. This is safe. This is easy. They told me so. This will give me my future back.
She wanted to believe all that. Hours later, reality proved otherwise.
Tears rained down her face while she tried to muffle cries and endure excruciating cramps.
Blood. Everywhere. Severely weakened, all she could do was lay on the cold floor for hours.
Hemorrhaging and pain would last for weeks. The trauma forever.
No one told her.
No one told her that women have died from these pills. That thousands have serious complications.
No one warned that the “tissue” she passed would have a little nose and perfectly formed upper lip.
No one explained she’d deliver a tiny baby, her baby into a toilet, an image she would never be able to unsee.
She was further along than suspected. But a doctor never examined her. Instead, a stranger prescribed an abortion via computer.
She never felt more alone. Scared. Wounded.
This is mail-order abortion. This is what the FDA, the agency that is supposed to safeguard our health, is now allowing.
This is what the abortion industry is selling. “Tele-health” that kills preborn babies and seriously puts women’s physical and emotional health at risk.
Back alley abortion has come into the home.
We mustn’t let it. We must warn all the young women susceptible to the lies and deceptions of the abortion industry. We must assure them of our help and support.
We must protect them and their precious children, even when our government will not.