{"id":2613515,"date":"2026-06-12T03:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-report-not-enough-info-given-about-bleeding-pain-mental-anguish-before-taking-abortion-pill\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:23:01","slug":"women-report-not-enough-info-given-about-bleeding-pain-mental-anguish-before-taking-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-report-not-enough-info-given-about-bleeding-pain-mental-anguish-before-taking-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Report Not Getting Enough Info Before Taking Abortion Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwomen-report-not-enough-info-given-about-bleeding-pain-mental-anguish-before-taking-abortion-pill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613515&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mifepristone is the most popular and prolific abortion drug in the United States. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0349065#sec014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">peer-reviewed study<\/a> from Charlotte Lozier Institute scholars, however, suggests that the hundreds of thousands of women who down those abortion pills each year don\u2019t feel fully informed about the physical, mental, and emotional effects linked to chemical abortion<\/p>\n<p>The study notes informed consent is \u201ca cornerstone of patient autonomy\u201d and is allegedly heralded by abortion activist groups such as the National Abortion Federation. Yet many of the 362 women CLI surveyed after they took mifepristone reportedly desired more information about the risks and complications of abortion pills than they were offered when the drug was prescribed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortion symptoms and side effects for which women most frequently sought to gather information included pain, bleeding, failed or incomplete abortion, and desiring abortion pill reversal,\u201d the researchers noted. <\/p>\n<p>Similar complaints appeared on online search engines and in discussion forums, which researchers also reviewed as part of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to bleed off the medication and pass clots what was expected,\u201d one post stated. \u201cI ended up seeing the fetus witch [sic] has totally broke me. I didn\u2019t expect to see it\u2019s [sic] little tiny toes and hands perfectly formed. It\u2019s completely made me feel rock bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another section of the research noted that the \u201cmost prevalent emotions mentioned by women were regret, guilt, grief, anxiety, and depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I could go back and change everything. I\u2019m miserable and I can\u2019t stop crying. I feel suicidal,\u201d one woman wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Another post detailed how a woman tried to throw up the abortion pills after taking them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really confused and emotional over this situation is it too late?\u201d she asked. <\/p>\n<p>Mifepristone maker Danco Laboratories, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/28\/study-abortion-lobby-medias-claims-that-mifepristone-is-safer-than-tylenol-are-hogwash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media<\/a>\u00a0insist that pregnancy-ending pills are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/missouri-ag-sues-planned-parenthood-for-falsely-advertising-dangerous-abortion-drug-as-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">safe<\/a>. A 2025 analysis of insurance data, however, found that more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/28\/study-rate-of-serious-or-life-threatening-complications-after-abortion-pill-is-22-times-higher-than-fda-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one in 10 women<\/a>\u00a0who take mifepristone suffer serious additional complications such as hemorrhage or infection. The risk of experiencing a life-threatening event linked to the abortion drug is at least 22 times higher than what the FDA and Danco claim.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 30 percent of women CLI surveyed experienced unexpected levels of bleeding. Another 30 percent claimed complications in the form of unanticipated pain. The study included examples from several respondents who wondered on internet forums if the heavy bleeding they experienced after taking mifepristone was normal. Others reported confusion on whether they had already passed their babies\u2019 bodies and if they needed immediate medical intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Despite more than 29 percent of participants\u2019 belief that they \u201cneeded more information than was provided during the informed consent process\u201d about symptoms of an incomplete abortion with retained tissue, which can lead to life-threatening complications such as sepsis, only half of the women, 50.3 percent, were examined via ultrasound after they completed their chemical abortion. <\/p>\n<p>A strong majority, 97.5 percent, of the women claimed they gave informed consent about mifepristone ahead of taking it. When asked by researchers if they wanted more information about chemical abortion \u201cthan what was offered,\u201d however, respondents \u201cnoted the need for more information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s biggest desire for details, the study concluded, centered on \u201clong-term effects, mental health care and services, counseling, coping post-abortion, expected level of pain and trauma, risk of infection, pros and cons of medical versus surgical abortion, available options (e.g., \u2018if i wanted to keep the baby\/help me change my mind\u2019), and wished that \u2018ultrasound was a part of a follow up after an abortion.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings raise real questions about whether women are being given all the information they want and need to be fully informed,\u201d CLI senior research associate and study author Tessa Cox said. \u201cOur results underscore a serious reality: Informed consent for abortion drugs needs to be far more than just a box to check.\u00a0Given the broader context of the increasing availability of abortion drugs online and through the mail, there are serious ramifications, not only as the lives of unborn babies are ended by these drugs but also as women\u2019s safety is put at risk.\u00a0The stakes are too high for informed consent to be treated as a formality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers were careful to note that gaps in informed consent and post-abortion examination were more apparent when women received mifepristone through the mail. It was the Biden-era FDA that made mail-order abortion possible by relaxing Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMs) requirements for in-person doctor visits and physician-only mifepristone prescribing.<\/p>\n<p>A separate Charlotte Lozier Institute study published in May found that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LozierInstitute\/status\/2059305917041062091?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">81 percent<\/a> of online abortion businesses mail drugs to women who are further along in pregnancy than the 10-week gestation limit set in the FDA\u2019s mifepristone prescription requirements.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of \u201cThe Federalist Radio Hour.\u201d Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mifepristone is the most popular and prolific abortion drug in the United States. A new peer-reviewed study from Charlotte Lozier Institute scholars, however, suggests that the hundreds of thousands of women who down those abortion pills each year don\u2019t feel fully informed about the physical, mental, and emotional effects linked to chemical abortion The study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2613516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}