Dr. Peter Boylan:

The two complications are haemorrhage bleeding and infection. It will certainly have an effect on a young vulnerable girl, who takes the pills and then has more bleeding than she would anticipate and must go into hospital and her fear is being asked what happened. If she has an infection, it may become a little bit more obvious what she has been trying to do. She does not know whether while in the hospital a doctor, midwife, secretary may report her case to the police. That will have a chilling effect on her and adds to her distress.