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Will a woman be psychologically traumatized by what is seen during the aspiration?

Asked by concernedboyfriend (11points) August 31st, 2010

Hello everyone – After many sleepless nights, my gf and I decided to go ahead with a medication abortion. She is 6 weeks pregnant. We did a ton of research on this type of abortion. When the day finally arrived and she was initially consulted by a Planned Parenthood person, the woman told her that the medication abortion is not very affective and that over 50% of her patients need to come back to do an aspiration due to the failure of the medication abortion. The strange thing is that the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood website cited a statistic of 5–8 women out of 100. By the way, this is the kingston Street clinic in LA. This scared my gf tremendously because she all along was very fearful of the aspiration procedure and feels that she would be psychologically traumatized by what she will see, hear, and feel during the aspiration procedure (since you are technically awake, although partially sedated). The Planned Parenthood person said that she was only being honest with my gf and did not want anyone to go through such an ordeal without knowing the “facts”, however why would they post erroneous data to begin with? To lure women in, then tell them the “real” truth? The planned parenthood person also told my gf that she would most likely be bedridden for 2–3 days even though there is no warning of that on their website. They gave her 5 minutes to decide whether she still wanted to go with the pill or just do the aspiration then and there. My gf was so shocked that she did not want to go any further and so we decided to make another appt in 4 days so that we can think things through. Has anyone had any experience in which you are haunted by what is seen during the aspiration, and in particular, whether the partial sedation, aside from the pain factor, is effective in helping the woman not be aware of what is going on? My gf is terrified and I do not know what I can do to help. Please, I need some advice.

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