Abortion pills – Mifepristone and Misoprostol – are powerful drugs designed to kill a growing baby and expel it from the mother’s body.

MSI Reproductive Choices UK, a leading abortion provider, tells women that: “Strong cramping and bleeding are to be expected.” But that’s not the whole story.

Taking abortion pills involves high rates of the following unpleasant side effects:

• nausea (30.7 – 69.2%)
• vomiting (22.3 – 34.1%),
• diarrhoea (31.8 – 58.6%)
• pain (91.6%)
• fever (21.3 – 44.3%)
• chills (36.5 – 44.3%)
• headache (12.3 – 42%)
• dizziness (13.1 – 45.5%)
• weakness (19.2 – 56.6%).

62% of women taking Mifepristone (RU486) and Misoprostol and 48% of those taking Misoprostol alone experienced pain they described as severe.

This is one woman’s experience: “I understood I was going to have cramps, but I didn’t realise just how bad it was going to be. Two hours after I took the tablets, I started bleeding. I didn’t look because I knew it would really upset me. About six hours later the pain was unbearable. I was lying on my bathroom floor, curled in a ball. I was sweating, my temperature was 39.8, I couldn’t move. I had diarrhoea, I was being sick, I was shivering, shaking, sweating. I thought I was going to die.”