Fact check: Anti-abortion groups claim 1 in 5 patients using mifepristone suffer complications
research. That study evaluated national registries for women in the country who had abortions between 2000 and 2006 and found that about 20 percent who took medication abortion said they experienced adverse events.PolitiFact is a fact-checking project to help you sort out fact from fiction in politics. Truth-O-Meter ratings are determined by a panel of three editors.
About 22,000 had medication abortions; the other 20,000 underwent surgical abortions. Researchers reported that about 20 percent of the women who took medication for their abortions experienced what the paper described as adverse events or complications, with hemorrhage making up the lion’s share at 15.6 percent.
“We know that bleeding is an expected outcome with medication abortion and people are told about it in advance,” Grossman said. “But this study doesn’t have a standardized definition of hemorrhage, and there was no reporting on transfusions.”
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