A Nebraska woman and former Democrat shares her horrifying experience with abortion medication to advocate for limited access.
Abortion medication has been normalized as a quick, non-invasive solution for women who believe their birth control may have failed or who have engaged in unprotected sex. Side effects and potential complications are downplayed while the so-called benefits are celebrated, but one woman is sharing her story in the hopes that other women are spared from the same trauma she suffered.
After becoming pregnant and receiving a negative response from her then-boyfriend, Haile McAnally told Fox News Digital she was taken in by the pro-choice “sisterhood” marketing.
“I remember seeing the pink signs everywhere and the marketing that says … the sisterhood will take care of you. And as someone in that position where you’re scared, and you are looking for answers somewhere, and you don’t wanna be alone and being so young at the time, that was a very enticing message.”
The clinic, she said, was “cold,” “dark,” and reeked of alcohol.
“They took my money, and they sent me back to this room where … this doctor was going to walk me through everything that was going to happen that day. That’s the consent kind of happened, in that room, and he didn’t know me from Adam. He really didn’t ask about my background and anything medical that’s ever happened,” she revealed.
McAnally recalls following the medical advice she was given, and the horrific effects she suffered.
“I followed that protocol, went home, took the second pill, and I found myself on the toilet in the bathroom where bleeding occurred, which was exactly what they said. But after about two hours, I was still bleeding out. And I started feeling really weak. I knew that what was happening was not right, but I couldn’t really comprehend what was going on,” she detailed.
By the time she realized she needed medical intervention, she was too far from her phone.
“I just lay there and thought that was the moment that everything was over, and, partially, I felt like it was punishment for me making that decision,” she admitted. “But at the end of the day, I remember waking up, and I was in the hospital and my friend had come home, and she had realized that I was lying in the bathtub unconscious at the time, and she called 911, and I had a blood transfusion done.”
“Planned Parenthood told us that this is what is women empowerment. This is what women do when they can’t handle it. They take this route, and they don’t acknowledge the pain it causes,” she said.
This is why she is fighting for curbed access to mailed mifepristone medications for women seeking abortions.
“The same pills I took under the direction of medical professionals can be shipped anywhere at any time. I can’t imagine being a young woman in college and maybe finding herself in this position, ordering these pills online, not knowing what kind of maybe pre-medical condition she has, and she finds herself in the same position,” she said.
She said the entire experience was so awful that it prompted her to switch to the Republican Party.
“I had always been on the left because I thought they were the side that was more open to having these conversations, the free-thinkers,” she said. Unfortunately, she discovered that trying to discuss her experience was met with coldness from those on the left.
“You can’t talk about it. You can’t talk about it because it’s not part of our agenda. It’s not a part of our platform to talk about any complications this may have.” McAnally explained. “I noticed the more I asked questions, the people on the right were more willing to talk about it, which, in the pro-life space, I thought I was gonna be condemned. I thought it was gonna be like, ‘You’re gonna go to hell. This is horrible. You’re a murderer.’ These things that you always hear from the left that the right is gonna call you.”
“And I was like, ‘I’m gonna talk about it and see what happens.’ And the right was so forgiving and so loving and really embraced my story and really said, ‘This is horrible, I’m glad you seek forgiveness and counsel for this.'”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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