Patient Educational Page
This page is designed to be a resource for women who are considering abortion. We believe women should be fully informed before choosing abortion, and know that abortion providers and advocates often do not share the difficult aspects of abortion and the post-abortive process with women who are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy. The following are resources that share abortion facts and statistics, as well as the side of abortion that is not talked about – regret and pain that women experience when going through with the decision to have an abortion, the procedure itself, and the aftermath.
The following four videos are descriptions of the different abortion procedures available to women, presented by providers who have performed the procedures many times themselves.
What is Abortion? | Live Action
1st Trimester Chemical Abortion – The Pill
What is Abortion? | Live Action
1st Trimester Surgical Abortion - Suction D&C
What is Abortion? | Live Action
2nd Trimester Surgical Abortion – Dilation and Evacuation
What is Abortion? | Live Action
3rd Trimester Surgical Abortion – Induction procedure
Miscarriages are not uncommon in pregnancy – if it is still early in your pregnancy, you could experience a miscarriage, making an abortion procedure risky and unnecessary. Here is a video with further miscarriage statistics.
When do miscarriages usually occur?
Most resources will tell you that abortion is easy and that women have no regrets and suffer no increased risk of mental health issues after deciding to abort; but research tells us differently. Here are some articles with statistics on abortion as well as women’s mental health post-abortion.
Fact Check: “Abortion is 14 Times Safer than Childbirth” - Lozier Institute
Abortion vs Pregnancy and Birth Safety
Fact Sheet: Abortion and Mental Health - Lozier Institute
Post-abortion mental health statistics
Fact Sheet: Problems and Limits of the Turnaway Study - Lozier Institute
An analysis of the popular Turnaway study claiming there is no correlation between abortion and poor mental health for women.
The following are video testimonies of women who experienced regret after an abortion, and/or were pressured to abort and chose life, as well as a video of previous planned parenthood employees discussing their experiences working for abortion providers and witnessing abortions.
Catholic woman who had an abortion urges others to reconsider
Woman who had abortion, now Sidewalk Advocate for Life speaking on her abortion regret
Michigan woman shares abortion regrets: 'I wept and wept'
Woman in Michigan speaking on her abortion regret and work in the pro-life movement
Post with a woman’s testimony of abortion regret
Video post of a young woman accounting her experience with chemical abortion
Students for Life post of abortion regret testimonies
Students for Life video testimony of a woman’s experience with chemical abortion
Video post of woman who chose life despite pressure to abort
Video post of a woman who started her chemical abortion, regretted it, and chose to do APR and had a healthy baby afterwards
Video of testimonies from previous planned parenthood employees and their experience working there and witnessing abortions
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