A young woman on Twitter named Aba (@aba_aggrey), living in the United States, has shared her harrowing story about how her ex-boyfriend secretly gave her DIY abortion drugs to kill their unborn baby girl. Sadly, the man succeeded, as the child later succumbed, and the ex-boyfriend has so far not been arrested. He “won”, says a grief-stricken Aba. This is her story.

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“Listen about what my ex did to me and our child”, posted Aba on Twitter this week. “Please prepare yourself for what you will read”, she also warned, detailing her horrific experience in a series of Twitter posts that have since gone viral.

When Aba was 17 weeks pregnant, her boyfriend (the father of her child) inserted abortion drugs into her vagina during intercourse. Aba was unaware of what he had done. Soon, Aba recalled, she “began to experience what I later found out was side effects of the drug Misoprostol”, a drug used to abort babies.

“I began to have chills, then extremely terrible cramps, that then led to diarrhoea”, she explains. At first, she assumed that she had developed food poisoning, until she began to leak what later turned out to be amniotic fluid.

Doctors confirmed that Aba was experiencing contractions. Abortion drugs were later found in her body as well. As for her boyfriend, says Aba: “He knew exactly what he had done and why I was experiencing what I was experiencing and watched me sit in pain and confusion…

“As I was rushed to hospital I couldn’t cry or focus on the reality of the betrayal and pain I felt. I did everything I could to calm myself so my baby wouldn’t feel my distress. I couldn’t come to terms with actually losing what I had wanted so bad…

I pleaded with God in hopes that in some miracle my child would be saved.”

“That man won”

Tragically, because of “the effect Misoprostol had on her [unborn child’s] brain, body, and my physical ability to carry her”, the decision to abort her baby was made as Aba “began to lose too much blood almost every single day I kept on. So much that my blood count began to drop to dangerous levels.”

Aba had bled continuously for many weeks and had put herself at risk of serious complications herself, including losing her uterus, in hope that her daughter might pull through. “I was holding onto the idea of a miracle that seemed was never meant to be”, she says.

But “that man [her boyfriend] won at the end of the day and I was left with the responsibility of making the hardest choice of my life. A choice I explicitly told him in the beginning I never ever wanted to make or live with…

“The sorrow I first encountered with the thoughts of letting my daughter go was more than a lot for me, but I could not live with making what I began to believe was the selfish choice of prolonging her suffering.”

Aba has added that her ex-boyfriend has “has not been arrested… He has taken no responsibility for his actions… and will prey on others at his leisure”.

We must ACT NOW to stop abortion coercion

SPUC’s Michael Robinson, Executive Director (Public Affairs and Legal Services), said: “Aba’s story deserves to be heard. Her bravery in speaking out about her experience, as well as putting herself at personal risk to try to save her baby daughter, is astounding and commendable.

“Too often we see women being coerced into abortion. As recently reported by SPUC, a staggering 2022 poll revealed that around 15% of UK women have been coerced into abortions – that is 15% of all women in the UK.

“In Aba’s case, she was not even aware that abortion drugs had been administered until it was too late. A terrible crime has taken place, and such violence against women and their unborn babies must be taken seriously and prevented. Culprits must be held accountable for their actions.

“In 2022, SPUC will be campaigning to highlight abortion coercion and demand that the UK Parliament act immediately to help women and their babies. We must ACT NOW to prevent further atrocities from taking place. Such abusers as Aba’s ex-boyfriend cannot be allowed to win.

“SPUC wishes Aba all the best moving forward after her terrible ordeal. We hope, too, that justice will prevail, and that Aba will find peace and every happiness in the future.”