Dr. Christina Francis, MD

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · An OBGYN On What The Abortion Pill Actually Does To Your Body | Dr. Christina Francis, MD · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

So the biggest ones are going to be hemorrhage or really heavy bleeding where they might need a blood transfusion infection.

I've treated patients that had to be admitted to the hospital with multiple IV antibiotics to treat their severe infections.

incomplete abortions.

So where, again, where they don't pass all of the baby and there's tissue left behind that they need to have an emergency surgery for.

And those are, I would say, the most common ones that we see.

I think the other important thing to know, though, that we're seeing is undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies.

Ectopic pregnancy is where

The baby implants somewhere outside of where it's supposed to.

So it's supposed to implant in the cavity of the woman's uterus.

And when it implants elsewhere, it causes problems.

The most common location is in the fallopian tube.

The reason that's a problem is because the fallopian tube

isn't designed to expand and grow with that growing baby.

And so as the baby grows, it can cause the tube to rupture and cause life-threatening bleeding in a woman's abdomen.

In fact, it's the number one cause still of death in the first trimester of pregnancy is a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.

And I've taken care of hundreds of women with ectopic pregnancies, and they truly are life-threatening, need to be treated as an emergency.

The problem that we're seeing, especially with the way the abortion drugs are dispensed now, is that women are not being diagnosed as to whether or not they have an ectopic pregnancy or not before they get these drugs.

These drugs don't treat ectopic pregnancies, which occur in 1 in 50 pregnancies.

This is not uncommon.

1 in 50 is very common.

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