Planned Parenthood Ignored Woman’s Abortion Pill Complications and She Almost Died

Pro-life organizations have been talking about a recent study on abortion pill complications. The study found that 10.93 percent of people experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhage, or another serious adverse event within 45 days of taking the abortion pill.

It also found that the rate of serious adverse events following chemical abortions is at least 22 times higher than the figure of “less than 0.5 percent” reported on the drug label.

When examining numbers and statistics, it’s easy to lose sight of their impact on individual people. What do these complications look like for individual women?

An Abortion Pill Complication

One woman’s experience gives us an answer. On a webcast hosted by David Bereit, a Black woman named Shanyce told her story. Shanyce took the abortion pill and almost died from a life-threatening infection.

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Many women have written about being ambivalent, upset, or emotionally distraught before having an abortion. But when Shanyce went to Planned Parenthood to get the abortion pill, she wasn’t emotionally troubled. Instead, she says, “I really didn’t have…no emotion. You’re here. Just get it done.”

The abortionist at Planned Parenthood gave her the first abortion pill, mifepristone, which she took at the facility. She took home the second drug, misoprostol, and took it 72 hours later.

Shanyce began to bleed heavily and cramp. At first, she thought everything was fine. Planned Parenthood workers had warned her that she would have cramps. She says she thought, “Okay, like, this is what they said was gonna happen. Like, these are the symptoms, so I’m fine.”

But then the cramps got much worse. Shanyce recalls:

[T]he cramp was unbearable… [I]t kind of felt like somebody was stabbing me in my stomach… It was really unbearable. I never cramped like that before.

Seeking Help at Planned Parenthood

Shanyce’s mother became worried. She told Shanyce to go back to Planned Parenthood because she shouldn’t be in so much pain.

Shanyce did go back to Planned Parenthood, and they did an ultrasound. The same doctor who gave Shanyce the abortion pill told her that there were no fetal remains left in her uterus and the abortion was proceeding as normal.

According to Shanyce:

They kind of like, just brushed it off and was, like, Hey, these are the symptoms. Like, you’re fine. And she just sent me about my way.

So, I go back home, I called my mom, and I told her what happened, and she was just like, “Well, we’ll just wait and see if the pain go[es] away, like, take some Tylenol or Advil.”

It was close to the holidays, and Shanyce’s family was supposed to have photos taken, but Shanyce was too sick.

An Emergency Trip to the Hospital

At some point, her mother insisted that she go to the hospital. Shanyce said her mother noticed that she was “blue, pale… I just looked really lethargic and sick.”

At the hospital, doctors did another ultrasound and discovered that the Planned Parenthood abortionist was wrong – there were parts of the baby and/or placenta left in Shanyce’s uterus. This retained tissue had caused a serious infection.

Shanyce was put on an IV and rushed into surgery. She describes what happened next:

…I started getting a fever. I was throwing up constantly. I remember the first three surgeries that I had to remove the remains of the child, all my family came. They prayed over me, and that was kind of like the last thing I remember from there.

Shanyce went into septic shock, and doctors put her into an induced coma while they struggled to save her life.

She came very close to dying. According to Shanyce:

I nearly died. I was there for maybe a week or so. They kept me, and then they wanted to transfer me to another hospital, maybe, like, an hour away. I was still in a coma…

I wake up in ICU, on a breathing tube. [I had a] blood transfusion. I had a stent in my neck so they could do blood work and all this other stuff, and I wasn’t able to talk until, like, the next day.

Her mother and father stayed in the area and sat vigil by her bedside until she woke up. Talking to her mom after waking up from her coma was, according to Shanyce, “very emotional for us.”

Devastating Consequences

Shanyce had to have a partial hysterectomy. She may never be able to have children.

Her recovery took a long time, and she needed occupational and physical therapy. She says:

They showed me how to step in and out of the shower, how to brush my teeth. I had to learn how to walk again …[I] had to learn how to write, chew, talk a little bit, how to do daily things. I didn’t go home til maybe the last week of February, and I was there from the beginning of January.

Shanyce had been so sick that she needed to be rehabilitated – taught all over again how to do simple things like walking, eating, and showering.

This all happened due to the abortion pill. Needless to say, Shanyce was not warned of the risk at Planned Parenthood. When she went back seeking help, the doctor at Planned Parenthood sent her home.

Had her mother not insisted that she go to the hospital when she did, Shanyce would likely have died. As it was, she came very close to dying anyway.

Currently, no government statistics are being kept on abortion pill complications. We have no idea how many women have endured serious complications, as no one is keeping track.

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LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here.

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