(LifeSiteNews) — Last year, a Nova Scotia mother was admitted to the hospital after taking abortion pills at home. She was bleeding to death. “It was heartbreaking because it felt like a nightmare,” she said at the time. “You’re in a crowded room with all these professionals crying, begging for help, and nobody’s helping you. I was begging for help, crying, pleading. I’m like looking down (at the blood), traumatized. I’m screaming at the top of my lungs, and nobody’s listening to me.” She was fortunate. She survived.

Only one mainstream media outlet—Global News—covered the story. And yet, tens of thousands of dangerous pill abortions happen every year in Canada, and politicians, activist organizations, and healthcare professionals are constantly pushing to increase access to these drugs and ensure that any woman, anywhere in Canada, can procure them. (A recent American study indicated that 11 percent of women who take the abortion pill experience a medical incident.)

Saskatoon Sexual Health announced that their “abortion patient navigator” program, which works to connect Saskatchewanians—especially those in rural areas—with “terminations” and abortion pills is once again fully funded. SSH, which used to be Planned Parenthood Saskatoon before rebranding in 2007 (and again in 2016), issued a public plea for donations earlier this month, resulting in $20,000 in funds in days.

Executive director Candice Klein told the CBC that abortion is in growing demand in the province. “We are seeing an increase in unplanned pregnancies across the province,” she said. “It’s not just our clinic. I’ve been talking with other clinics, with other physicians, with surgeons. It’s an actual issue and we’re not entirely sure why.”

The Saskatoon Abortion Support Network concurred. “Abortion doula” Angie Kells stated that their client requests have been up 71 percent in 2026, as opposed to 2025, adding that the abortion pill is a very “cost-effective” way for people to procure abortions without going to a hospital.

A similar surge in pill abortions is underway in Quebec. “Years after Quebec loosened restrictions on the medical abortion pill, the province saw nearly an 80 per cent increase in use in 2025, according to statistics from the Quebec public health insurance board, also known as RAMQ,” the CBC reported earlier this year. “A total of 2,852 women were reimbursed for taking Mifegymiso last year, compared to 1,586 in 2024. The medication allows for people to have an abortion naturally [sic], without the need for a surgical procedure.”

NDP Premier David Eby of British Columbia also spearheaded an abortion pill push in May, announcing that his government was expanding the “scope of practice” for midwives in the province, permitting them to prescribe mifegymiso. “We know that the right to choice is under attack in the United States,” he stated. “Here in British Columbia, access to health care means the right to full reproductive choice for women, no matter where you are in the province, and we’re proud of that.”

Almost without exception, the politicians and the press present the abortion pill as “safe”—that is, it will not harm the woman taking it—and “effective,” by which they mean that it kills the preborn baby as intended. But as Pete Baklinski reported in 2024, “according to the Canadian government’s website that tracks adverse reactions to drugs, over 100 Canadian women have been severely harmed by the abortion pill protocol since it first became available in Canada in 2017.”

Tragically, that number included a 19-year-old woman who died after taking abortion pills.

“According to the data, Canadian women using the abortion pill protocol have experienced hemorrhaging (severe blood loss at times requiring transfusion), loss of consciousness, sepsis (the body’s extreme response to an infection that damages vital organs), septic shock resulting in death, and thrombosis (blood clots in the circulatory system), to name a few,” Baklinksi wrote. “One Canadian woman, age unknown, experienced a near-death ordeal in a situation that critics of abortion pills previously predicted.”