Bedroom Sheets and Bathroom Floors - The Home Bound Horror of the Abortion Pill
Picture this. It's a dark, gloomy evening in mid-October and you and a close group of friends decide to kill some time (figuratively) by renting a spooky B-grade movie to watch with popcorn and fuzzy blankets thinly veiling your eyes for the "really scary" parts. After a bit of deliberation, you settle on "The Horrible Horriableness from Planet Horrible," or "The Return of the Thing We Thought Was Dead." Particulars aren't important. What is important is the fact that the movie is cheesy and better for a laugh than for a scare. However, if the movie is doing one thing well, it's using its presumably small budget to absolute effect in the blood department. Leaving its cast dripping in the gory stuff, the film should look like a veritable Red Wedding by the time it's over in order to gain the coveted shock and awe that feeds these types of films.
Blood, gore, and shock and awe have been parts of the horror genre since time immemorial. Over the years, the level of fluids, drenching, and degrees that films are willing to push have changed, but one thing remains the same: audiences like a good bloody scare. Disgusting but comfortably removed from reality by a healthy dose of fiction, messy and twisted films appeal to many people on a certain level, but only for so long, as they can remain secure in the fact that looking away or leaving is always an option if the horror and gore ever gets to be too much for them. But what those individuals who can't walk away from the blood, often a horror "of their own making," which has been sold to them wholesale?
Highlighted numerous times by Pro-Life advocates like Abby Johnson and Lila Rose and featured in expose videos by Live Action News, the abortion pill and its side effects are perhaps the most hot-button issue within the larger Pro-Life v. Abortion debate because, more often than not, the subject skirts the edge of the "personal choice" argument, with many people pointing out the empowerment and agency that the pill claims to gift women as an alternative to being poked and prodded by a doctor. The argument for the abortion pill also stands on a certainty that women are told exactly how the abortion pill will end their pregnancies so, knowing the possibilities, "why shouldn't women be allowed to willingly take a medication that brings about a reality that they want?" But, momentarily putting aside the inescapable fact that, no matter how it's carried out, an abortion ends the promising life of an innocent child (and therefore should never be allowed), other issues exist with the abortion pill that must be brought to light. For the health and defense of women if nothing else.
These issues include: 1. the pill being a frequent contributor to partner abuse in cases all around the world; 2. the public's opinion that chemical abortion can be used as a makeshift morning-after pill when the real option fails; and 3. the fact that Misoprostol (the second pill in the abortion regime) was originally created as a stomach ulcer medication that has only been haphazardly prescribed for abortions because of the known dangers it harbors for pregnancies. But, chief among the issues with the abortion pill is the fact that it is largely sold wholesale, without proper precautions given to the desperate women who have no idea what they are about to put themselves (and their babies) through, thus completely undermining the abortion industry's boast of concern for women.
Time and again, women recount stories, often buried by abortion industry anger and public ignorance, where they took the abortion pill under the assumption that it would induce a heavy period, killing a child early and humanely, only to be met with the worst pain they had ever endured and the loss of so much blood that many thought they were moments away from dying. Like a veritable horror movie, women who have taken the abortion pill report feeling like their insides were being ripped out, seeing pieces of or whole moving babies pour out of them to then be washed down a drain, being so sick that they couldn't stop throwing up violently even when there was nothing left in their stomachs, and, finally, laying blood-soaked on their beds or bathroom floors, completely rung out and agonizing over the fuzzy belief that they are the only ones to blame for their current condition (completely unaware of everything about which they were not warned). Abby Johnson experienced this very ordeal personally and now recounts it as part of her bid for Pro-Life protections.
However, after the traumatizing experience, many women refuse to talk about what they have gone through, deeply scared by guilt and broken trust. Sadly, these are actually the lucky victims of chemical abortion. Numerous women have died post-pill ingestion from complications including septic shock (Holly Patterson being the most well-publicized) or have been severely medically damaged, which only adds to the pain of what is nothing less than a coerced solution to an "unwanted" pregnancy, with the entire situation being completely avoidable. The bottom line? As a scenario that kills a child and horrifically scares a mother, chemical abortion is the greatest injustice of the abortion industry, and yet it is not talked about because the vast majority of people will not face the horror and gore that is right in front of them. However, this is not a situation that will just disappear if enough people look away. Rather, it has to be met head-on before it takes one more life, mother or child. To that end, who will look it in the face?
Sources: Live Action News, Unplanned and The Walls are Talking by Abby Johnson
Resources: The Walls are Talking by Abby Johnson, Is the Abortion Pill Safe?, Meet the Doctors Saving Babies Via Abortion Pill Reversal Treatment, the I Saw My Baby Video Series by Live Action News
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