Nearly two out of three abortions carried out in the United States last year took place via abortion pills — a method post-abortive mothers have said inflicted “the worst physical pain of my life” and forced them to “experience the trauma again every time I used the bathroom.” The abortion pills have produced so many fetal deaths and seriously harmful side effects for women that one researcher told The Washington Stand the growing number of chemical abortions represents “a tragedy.” ....

A woman using the name “Patricia” said a Planned Parenthood abortionist told her the abortion pill regimen was safe, and complications were rare. “Within one hour I knew that everything the doctor had told me was a lie. I was bleeding so heavily, I believed I was dying. I was passing clots the size of baseballs, and I was in the worst physical pain of my life, worse than childbirth,” she wrote. But the worst pain came when “I looked into the toilet and saw my baby. It had a head, body, and tiny arms and legs,” she wrote. “The shame and guilt … I felt … as I was forced to flush my aborted baby down the toilet, is impossible to describe.” Three weeks later, she found out the pills had failed to expel all of her child’s body, leading to future mass blood loss and necessitating weekly OB-GYN visits.