On December 18, I wrote a post about a study published online in the BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health which reported that many women are “unprepared” for the intensity of the pain they experience when they undergo chemical abortions–aka the abortion pill.

“Unprepared” was putting it mildly.

I am glad to see that “Expectations and experiences of pain during medical abortion at home: a secondary, mixed-methods analysis of a patient survey in England and Wales” is getting some much deserved attention. That includes the Washington Examiner, the Catholic News Agency, and the indispensable Live Action News.

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The survey of 1,600 women in England and Wales was conducted by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a leading abortion provider in Great Britain. You know BPAS must have been hesitant to report the findings.

Writing for Newsweek, Hatty Willmoth reported that

“Pain was so much stronger than period pain, it was like having contractions in labor,” one of the survey respondents wrote. “I’ve given birth three times and the pain really wasn’t too much different from that pain, the cramping contraction pain.”

About half—48.5 percent—of respondents said that the pain they experienced was worse than they expected.

NBC News’s Kaitlin Sullivan elaborated:

More than 90% of respondents ranked their pain at least a 4 out of a maximum of 10, and about half said the pain was more than they had expected. About 40% said their pain was severe, between an 8 and a 10 on the pain scale.

What about what these women had been told to expect? As you would anticipate, the authors of the study– Hannah McCulloch, Danielle Perro, Neda Taghinejadi, Katherine C. Whitehouse, and Patricia A. Lohr– understated women’s pain responses and inadequate counseling [https://srh.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/03/bmjsrh-2024-202533]

Some found the commonly used analogy to period pain misleading. Many felt unprepared for the level of pain they experienced, which they attributed to provider comparisons to period pain, as well as a lack of detailed, realistic anticipatory pain counselling.

You think?

Cassy Fiano-Chesser concluded her excellent story for Live Action News with the study’s keen relevance for Americans:

While this study focused on the United Kingdom, it’s an issue that affects the United States as well. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, downplays the reality of chemical abortions on its website, merely reporting that women will feel “tired and crampy” and that it’s “kind of like having a really heavy, crampy period.”

Women who have actually undergone chemical abortions, as this study found, beg to differ. Women have spoken not only of extreme pain, but also of the trauma of seeing their child, and the amount of blood there was.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.

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