OBGYN: I Know Abortion Hurts Women Because I’ve Treated Women Injured by Abortions

‘I’m very sorry, but you have an ectopic pregnancy.” As an OB/GYN hospitalist I find myself delivering these painful words to patients increasingly often. An ectopic pregnancy—when an embryo implants outside the uterus—is fatal for the baby and can threaten the mother’s life if it isn’t swiftly treated. It is the leading cause of maternal death in the first trimester.

Rising ectopic pregnancy rates are more dangerous in light of the widespread use of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol...