I am by no means an expert BUT I was always under the impression that a pregnancy under 6 or 7 weeks did not get the standard surgical abortion, that a large syringe was used instead to manually “evacuate” the uterus. I looked in my local yellow pages and the abortion clinics where I live don’t even do abortions prior to 7 weeks. I think it’s entirely feasible that this was concocted. People in the abortion industry aren’t exactly trustworthy and known for their honesty.
If you can't trust the person you pay to murder your baby, who can you trust?
You have no idea. Not only is this woman likely to not have been pregnant, she is very likely to have participated in selling abortions to other women who were not even pregnant. A scared young woman comes in, not knowing what the deal is, says she is afraid she might be pregnant. They do a "test," show her a "positive" strip, and schedule her right away, cash on the barrel head btw.
This was a common practice prior to the advent of high definition sonograms and their required use. It is probably the main reason why abortionists fought them so fiercely. A sonogram with nothing on it is not going to convince or reassure some one that abortion is called for.