Since everyone is saying RU-486 is so super safe and easy, it is important to at least mention/warn women of what they might experience. I’m going to post these things periodically, because it’s one thing to read about the abortion pill being legalized, and it’s another thing altogether to take it.

Two things, no wait, three, that really bother me. 1) the voices of these women are never heard 2) it appears that so many of those women who love, luv, luuuuuuv the abortion pill are at an age when they would never have to take it 3) the media never report with any concern for the fact that this can be very damaging to women. They never ask any tough questions. Wait, I’m not done with things that really bother me here. 4) Men, who due to biology can but rarely understand what it means to have a painful menstrual cycle, will now begin to associate the abortion pill with, oh say, taking a Tylenol. 5) Women encourage other women and men to see it that way.

Gonna be a rude awakening.

Read one woman’s experience:

It was around midnight and I had been in the bathroom for a good 12 hours. I knew I couldn’t leave yet. I didn’t want to lay in the bed…the bleeding was too heavy. And the clots were still coming; not as often, but they were still coming.

What do they have in common? They have all de-funded Planned Parenthood. I’d call that success.

Alabama has become the third state to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the wake of five videos exposing how the abortion giant sells the body parts of aborted babies for research. The state follows Louisiana, which is revoking a contract with Planned Parenthood using state Medicaid dollars, and New Hampshire, which zapped $650,000 in state taxpayer funding.

And this article talks about what they are:

All of these procedures to which the egg provider and surrogate are subjected pose devastating short- and long-term health risks. The short-term risks include ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), characterized by difficulty breathing, excruciating pelvic pain, swelling of the hands and legs, severe abdominal pain and swelling, nausea, vomiting, weight gain, low urine output, and diarrhea. OHSS can be fatal. Other short-term risks are ruptured cysts, ovarian torsion, blood clots, chronic pelvic pain, premature menopause, infection, difficulty breathing, allergic reaction, bleeding, kidney failure, stroke, and even death.

The long-term risks include cancer, especially reproductive—ovarian, breast, or endometrial—cancers, and (in a sad irony) future infertility. Both surrogates and egg providers are typically given Lupron, a drug that is not approved by the FDA for fertility use (it is used to treat men with advanced prostate cancer) to produce the onset of menopause with potentially incapacitating and long-lasting effects. Lupron and Synarel are used off-label and are Category X drugs, meaning that if a woman gets pregnant while taking the drug, the fetus will be harmed. Lupron also puts women at risk for intracranial pressure.

Brittany Maynard, the young woman who killed herself in Oregon after learning she had a terminal brain tumor, was also an egg donor.

This information came to me from a source who wished to remain anonymous, and who, because she was very close to Brittany, knew that Brittany had been an egg donor. My source reached out to me because she was aware of my work exposing the risks, known and unknown, to young women who make the decision to donate—or considerably more often, sell—their eggs, which is what Brittany did. I was contacted because this person was worried that this decision might have played a role in Brittany’s developing a glioblastoma.

To me, these things are tragic, because full information is not out there, women do not make informed choices, and also because the human tendency when you are young and healthy is to say “it won’t happen to me and I don’t care if it does.” This is the same mentality around abortion. Women may hear of possible health risks, mental or physical, but in the short term, they don’t care. Until they do. At which point, it’s too late.