NHS England data shows that over 54,000 women have been hospitalised following at-home abortion complications since 2020.
Research organisation Percuity reported that, according to the NHS data, 1-in-17 women who had an abortion at home required hospital care for complications including incomplete abortions, infections, and excessive haemorrhages.
The DIY scheme was introduced in 2020, and now most abortions take place at home.
Percuity stated: “The government is fully aware of the numbers of women being admitted to hospital for treatment of abortion complications but for some reason seems unwilling to report these on an annual basis.”
Women cannot give informed consent if the risks are downplayed, and deliberately minimising these dangers is unacceptable. Telemedicine, which posts out abortion pills to mothers without them seeing a medical professional in person, is so clearly harming women it’s baffling to think anybody could ignore their plight.