Looking to rant/share my story here and hopefully get some replies from others seeking the same. So here goes:

1)planned parenthood can suck my left one. I had a medical abortion 3 months ago and it was like they were going out of their way to make it as dehumanizing an experience as possible.
I went to the clinic in manhattan, where after passing through a metal detector I waited in a room/cattle car chock-full-o-chicas with not enough breathing room, much less seats, for about half an hour. To make matters worse, right smack in the center of said room was a desk, with two conspicuously placed clipboards--the left side was for medical question like myself who were aborting, the right side for everyone else. And so began my 2 month ordeal--walking up to that desk with all eyes burning into me, waiting to see which side I was on and passing their judgment accordingly.
There were 4 separate waiting rooms, each with its own set of forms with way too much fine print for a chica not exactly in the best of ways to be able to process. Sign here, and here, and here...
You'd think that there'd be some kind of counseling, or at least that the nurses would be sympathetic. And you would be wrong. Too many of us and no time to stop the money making conveyor belt to ask questions or offer a kind word. What makes me most enraged is that no one even informed me of the differences between a medical and a surgical--how the bleeding and cramping would be worse and last longer than if i'd just gotten it over and done with there. No time for that!
And then there was the probe. I'm pretty sure they could've done the ultrasound with a panel instead of it, but I guess that wouldn't be as much fun or teach me my lesson as well.

2)"some cramping and bleeding is to be expected" "somewhat stronger than normal menstrual cramps".
Those have to be some of the sickest lies i'll ever encounter in my lifetime. If you're having a medical, what's to be expected is the feeling that your uterus is being ripped from your body accompanied by nausea that'll knock you on your ass in a pool of vomit if you try to make it to the bathroom. I'd highly recommend not doing it alone like I did, or at least planning out everything you could possibly need in advance so that you don't have to attempt to stand...Or better yet, avoiding medical abortion all together.

3)"bleeding can last up to a month"
in my case, after the initial day or two of heavy bleeding, it was relatively light with not a lot of tissue loss. I thought I was done. The doctor told me I was at my follow up. My body disagreed, and the fun only began about 5 weeks after taking the pills while I was on a plane to backpack through a developing nation on the other side of the world. I spent my first week there alone and practically bedridden in a tiny, windowless room with noisy flourescent lighting because the bleeding and tissue loss was so heavy that i'd soak through all sorts of 'feminine hygene' products in ridiculously short periods of time. I thought I was dieing. My lonely planet guide advised me that the closest reliable medical care was a 5 hour boat trip away. I had my boyfriend back home call planned parenthood for advice--and check this: they said they had nothing to do with it and couldn't tell him anything because it was happening after a certain set time period within which they'll still pretend to give a caca about whether or not their patients die. I caca you not.

Obviously, it didn't kill me. I guess my advice to anyone reading this would be a) to avoid planned parenthood and conveyor belt abortion clinics and instead find a reliable obgyn and b) to inform yourself about both medical and surgical options cause you can't trust the practitioner to, and be aware that big-pharma's mifeprestone propaganda will tend to understate the drama that accompanies the pill.

Alright then...I think i'm done. It'd rock if someone else posted too.