Timika Thomas, a mother of four, has shared her heartbreaking experience of mistakenly being given abortion pills by a pharmacy, which ended the lives of her twin unborn babies.
Mrs Thomas was delighted to find out she was pregnant, following two ectopic pregnancies.
Shortly after taking the two doses of what she thought was another medication, the mother of four felt that the medication was not acting in the way that it should.
“I started cramping really bad … It was extreme. It was painful”, she recalled. Realising that something was wrong, Thomas looked up the name of the medication that she had been given by the pharmacist. “The first thing I read is it’s used for abortions”, she said.
The CVS pharmacy, a popular chain of pharmacies in the USA, accidentally dispensed misoprostol. Misoprostol is a drug that causes uterine contractions that end the life of a developing unborn baby by causing it to be expelled from the body prematurely.
“They just killed my baby”
Mrs Thomas could hardly believe what was happening to her. “They just killed my baby. Both my babies”, she disclosed in an interview with local news outlet, 8 News Now.
Files obtained by the local media outlet show that a series of errors led to this fatal mistake: a technician at the pharmacy typed the wrong medication into the prescription form; one pharmacist did not notice the error; and a second pharmacist neglected counselling Mrs Thomas when she received the medication.
“Cavalier” attitude to abortion pills causes concern
In the UK, reports of misuse of abortion pills have also been reported.
In 2022, a woman claimed that her boyfriend gave her abortion pills without her consent over a number of months, which led to the death of her daughter on the day she was born. Investigations have also shown how major abortion clinics have not done sufficient checks before issuing abortion pills to pregnant women.
Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said “Timika’s tragic story highlights the cavalier attitude that healthcare professionals involved with providing abortions can have towards ending the life of an unborn child. “It is no surprise that recent polling shows that women support ending ‘DIY’ home abortion schemes in the UK. The risks from the easy availability of these medications are too high”.
