Recently, I wrote an article about two abortion facilities that sued the state of Montana to block reasonable, common-sense regulations that would make abortion safer.
Today, I’d like to write more about one of those facilities, Blue Mountain Clinic.
Overall, Blue Mountain Clinic got four stars on Google reviews. However, two negative reviews stood out. One revealed a complication from an abortion procedure.
One reviewer had her abortion in 2023. She described the abortion as extremely painful:
[T]he abortion really hurt. Which I knew it was going to, but they told me they were going to give me something strong for the pain, but they didn’t give me anything that made it not so painful during the procedure…
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They are the most horrible people ever and even when I wanted to stop because they told me whenever I felt pain, we could stop for a little bit they wouldn’t let me.
This reviewer is far from the only post-abortive person who has said their abortion was painful.
Here are some examples from other facilities.
A woman had an abortion at 10 weeks and three days. Because she drove herself to the abortion facility and had to drive herself home, the doctor didn’t sedate her for the procedure.
He gave an injection to numb her cervix, which is standard in first-trimester abortions.
The woman describes what she endured:
From the start, inserting the speculum, the shot, and the procedure itself was one of the most painful experiences I’ve ever had. The doc had to continually tell me to stop clenching my butt and to keep my legs wide (I did not know I was doing those things until he would tell me I was).
I can’t describe the pain, the nurse/assistant was holding my hands and reminding me to breathe. I’m almost in tears thinking of what I went through.
Near the end, I broke down crying. I had to choke down tears walking into the room with the other ladies who have not gone yet (I was first). I felt so bad that a younger girl saw me and started crying herself.
Another woman described her pain in an amicus brief for a Supreme Court case. She says:
I was informed that it wasn’t going to hurt, and it was the most painful thing I ever experience [sic] to date. I remember the nurses telling me to be quiet so that I don’t scare the other patients. I had no clue what type of abortion I was having.
She called the abortion “the worst choice I ever made.”
Another woman identified only as Karen T, told her story in a book that collected women’s abortion experiences.
Like the previous woman, Karen was told that her abortion wouldn’t be painful. She said, “The local [anesthesia], they said, was just a shot in the cervix which has no nerve endings, and that I’d be out in 45 minutes. And like an ass, I believed them.”
When she saw the huge syringe that the abortionist was going to use, Karen said she “nearly died.” But, she said, the injection itself didn’t hurt.
That was not the case once the abortionist started the procedure. Karen said:
The doctor said he’d have to dilate me three times with rods to open me up enough. So, when he starts to work, the nurse start [sic] asking me dumb questions like what religion I am and who the father was.
God, the pain. I was screaming, and the doctor was getting worried. “Hang on,” he kept said, “It’ll be over in just a minute.”
I kept screaming back, “You said there’d be no pain, and you lied!”
To go back to the original review of Blue Mountain Clinic, it turned out that the reviewer’s pain during the abortion was just the beginning of her problems. Her review goes on to say:
[A]fter a couple days I started cramping really bad, and I thought it was just my period well it wasn’t.
It was a really bad infection in my down there area Well anyway, it went away and then I got another one. Well, I got a call from the doctor today telling me that the infection came from the abortion, so not only did I have to go through the most traumatic thing of my entire life I have an infection now because of it so if I were you, I would not go here.
Contaminated or dirty instruments can cause an infection after an abortion, as well as improper sterile technique, or retained fetal tissue.
We don’t know how many pregnant people develop infections after abortions because most states don’t keep track of abortion complications and those that do generally rely on the abortion providers themselves to report them.
Therefore, any statistics we have on abortion complications are sketchy as well as suspect.
The rest of the review reads:
…I tried to call them weeks ago and talk to them and see if something went wrong and they never responded my calls back so again I am forewarning you guys not to go here do your research before you pick this awful place.
So, not only did Blue Mountain Clinic cause a complication, but its staff also didn’t respond to her afterward.
Another review, from someone who strongly supports abortion, commented on how Blue Mountain Clinic employees took a long time to return phone calls. Her review states:
Super glad they provide women’s health services in Missoula — this is huge.
However, call back times from providers or even nurses and receptionists sometimes stretch into weeks, rather that [sic] hours or days. If you have a time sensitive medical issue that requires follow up … good luck.
This has happened to me multiple times on multiple issues. I switched my entire medical records system over to them from Providence to support their clinic and for them to be my primary care, and I really regret it.
Not returning phone calls promptly can put patients at serious risk if they’re dealing with a complication or health emergency.
There were also some positive reviews of the facility (as well as other negative ones). But these two reviews show serious problems, namely abortion complications that aren’t responded to and calls about important medical issues not returned in a timely manner.
In my next article, I will discuss a disturbing lawsuit against Blue Mountain Clinic.
LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here.
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