More than one in 20 women undergo secondary abortions after the abortion pills they initially ingest fail, according to just-published analysis.
The new study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center , which CBN News has previously reported on , found more than 5% of women had to pursue a repeat abortion within 45 days of taking mifepristone, the leading abortion-inducing pill. The data came from an analysis of insurance claims from 865,727 mifepristone abortions between 2017 and 2023.
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A total of 45,498 women needed a second abortion after the pill failed to terminate their pregnancies. Of those women, 24,563 pursued a surgical abortion and close to 7,000 underwent a second round of medication and surgical terminations.
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