Woman Nearly Dies from Abortion Pill, Story Reflects Disturbing EPPC Data

by Meredith Godwin | June 19, 2025 | Life

In April 2025, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) released the largest-known study on the dangers of mifepristone – the first drug in a two-drug regimen called the “abortion pill.”

Their data, collected from insurance claims between 2017-2023, analyzes 865,727 cases of prescribed abortion pills in the United States – 28 times as many as were included in the FDA’s clinical trials on the drug combined.

The study explains,

10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.

The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of “less than 0.5 percent” in clinical trials reported on the drug label.

Mifepristone abortion, as currently practiced in the U.S., is considered more dangerous to women than is represented on the FDA-approved drug label.

The study also urges the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “further investigate the harm mifepristone causes to women and, based on objective safety criteria, reconsider its approval altogether.”

To some, these disturbing statistics may only appear as numbers on a page. However, each digit represents a real woman who has either narrowly escaped death or tragically lost her life to the abortion pill.

Here is just one of those stories.

Shanyce

When Shanyce went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion pill in early 2025, she reported feeling “no emotion.” “You’re here. Just get it done,” she told herself.

Shanyce took the first pill, mifepristone, at the clinic. This dose of the abortion pill is designed the block progesterone – an essential hormone for a healthy pregnancy. Mifepristone also thins the uterine lining and prevents vital nutrients from getting to the baby, causing the death of the preborn child.

Planned Parenthood sent Shanyce home with instructions to take a second pill, misoprostol, 72 hours later. This second dose causes the uterus to contract, expelling the dead baby from the mother’s body.

Accompanied with misoprostol are typical symptoms of miscarriage: abdominal cramping, bleeding, and discharge of tissue or fluid.

Shortly after Shanyce noticed these symptoms, her pain became excruciating. She recalls,

The cramp was unbearable, like, it kinda felt like someone was stabbing me in my stomach. … It was really unbearable, I’ve never cramped like that before.

At the advice of her mother, Shanyce returned to Planned Parenthood. After an examination, a doctor told her there were no fetal remains left in her body:

They kinda like just brushed it off and was like, “hey these are the symptoms, like you’re fine.” And she sent me about my way.

Shanyce showed no improvement after returning home. Her mother noticed she looked “blue, pale … really lethargic and sick.”

Eventually, Shanyce’s mother insisted she go to the emergency room. After an ultrasound, the doctors informed Shanyce that her body still contained the dead remains of her child.

Shanyce was immediately rushed into surgery. She recalls,

I started getting a fever. I was throwing up constantly. I remember the first three surgeries that I had to remove the remains of the child, all my family came. They prayed over me, and that was kind of like the last thing I remember from there.

The abortion pill had given Shanyce an infection behind her uterus, forcing her to undergo a partial hysterectomy.

She later went into septic shock and was put into an induced coma.

Shanyce nearly died.

I wake up in ICU, on a breathing tube. I was on [a] blood transfusion, I had a stent in my neck. … I wasn’t able to talk til’ the next day.

Over the next few weeks, Shanyce relearned basic functions with the help of physical and occupational therapists:

They showed me how to step in and out of the shower, how to brush my teeth. I had to learn how to walk again after. I had to learn how to write, chew, talk a little bit, how to do daily things.

Shanyce was admitted to the hospital at the beginning of January. She was not released until the end of February – a long, traumatic hospital stay caused by both Planned Parenthood’s negligence and the abortion pill.

As reported by the EPPC, countless women like Shanyce have been deceived by the FDA’s false information about the abortion pill:

Danco Laboratories boasts that more than 5 million U.S. women have used its abortion pill since it was approved in 2000.

Even referring to the abortion pill as “medication” is a lie – “medication is intended to treat or cure diseases, and pregnancy is not a disease.”

Stories like Shanyce’s and the EPPC’s data undoubtedly prove the abortion pill is not safe:

Danco Laboratories markets Mifeprex as “the safe and effective abortion pill,” but our research shows that mifepristone abortion, as currently practiced in the U.S., is not safe and effective.

Women deserve better than the abortion pill.

Not only that, but every preborn baby deserves a chance to live.

Thankfully, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has committed to reviewing the abortion pill’s safety profile. Hopefully the FDA will act to restrict the abortion pill’s use in the coming days.

Women, and preborn babies, would be much safer as a result.

To learn more about the abortion pill reversal protocol, visit abortionpillreversal.com or call 1-877-558-0333 to be connected with a medical professional who can guide callers through the process of reversing the pill’s effects.

To connect with a local pregnancy resource center that can discuss all of your pregnancy options with you, click here.

Additionally, if you’re struggling and need a listening ear, Focus on the Family offers a free, one-time counseling consultation with a licensed or pastoral counselor. To request a counseling consultation, call 1-855-771-HELP (4357) or fill out our Counseling Consultation Request Form.

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