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3,900 hospital admissions in 2021 for abortion complications
In England during 2021, at least 3,900 women were admitted to an NHS hospital for surgical treatment of complications arising from abortion. On 23 November 2023, the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID), part of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), published new official statistics reporting the rate of complications arising from…
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Abortion complications massively under-reported
Abortion providers are massively under-reporting the incidence of complications arising from incomplete medical abortions. They also under-state the risk of an incomplete abortion when consenting women for this procedure. Thankfully, Lord Jackson has questioned the Government about this critical issue and is holding the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) to account to ensure…
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At-home abortions are putting women’s health at risk.
This post was first published by Christian Today on 14 July 2023. Across England and Wales, three in every four abortions – or 75% – are now performed by women at home using abortion pills. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently reported a 17% increase in the number of abortions: a total of 123,219…
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Redefining DIY abortion effectiveness to include a failure rate of 10%.
Abortion activists in the US are rushing to promote a new study that claims DIY medication abortion at home is safe and effective after 9 weeks gestational age, minimising or even ignoring the observed 10% failure rate and the recognised harm to women. The study by Moseson et al. was published in Obstetrics & Gynecology…
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This is ideology not evidence.
“…misoprostol, can be safely and effectively used on its own.” That’s what MSI Reproductive Choices is telling the public about a medical abortion treatment known to fail once in every five cases. This statement follows a similar one by Dr Grossman, a leading abortion researcher and advocate in the U.S., “What do people need to…
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The Abortion Pill is not always effective.
Medical Abortion (MA), aka the abortion pill, doesn’t always work; it is well-established that MA has an expected and commonly occurring treatment failure rate of about 5%. Meaning that as many as 1-in-20 pregnant women using abortion pills will subsequently need additional medical treatment for complications arising from an incomplete abortion. Medical abortion treatment failure…
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25,000 Reasons Why 95% is Not Good Enough.
Research shows that the abortion pill fails in 5% of cases – that’s the findings from a New York Times review of 101 studies covering 124,000 first trimester abortions performed in 26 countries over the last 30 years. Non-negligible risk of failure. It is well-known that medical abortion will sometimes fail, resulting in either a…
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Are Abortion Pills Safe? Here’s the Evidence.
It’s not just about ‘safety’ – the abortion pill (mifepristone and misoprostol) is medically safe for the woman; serious complications from medical abortion including hospitalisation, blood transfusion, major surgery, or death are rare. Arguing for changes to the legal and regulatory control of medical abortion solely based on safety is a very weak argument. Now…
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Emergency Ambulance Responses Three Times Higher for Pills-by-Post.
Data obtained from five NHS Ambulance Trusts in England, show that emergency ambulance responses for complications arising after a medical abortion are three times higher for women using pills-by-post at home, compared to those who have their medical abortion in a clinic. Using our rights under the Freedom of Information Act, we asked each of…
