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Woman Says CVS Killed Her Baby


This is quite a tragedy…

A Las Vegas woman who inspired to have a big family is devastated after she was mistakenly given an abortion pill instead of IVF hormones.

Fox News reported Las Vegas resident Tamika Thomas who was struggling to get pregnant opted to insert two eggs inside her body and was later sent her home with  two prescriptions.

To her horror one of the prescription she was given by a technical at CVS was an abortion pill that terminated her pregnancy.

After discovering she took an abortion pill Thomas who was in dismay at the time said “They just killed my baby…Both my babies, because I transferred two embryos.”

Here’s what Fox Business reported:

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A Las Vegas woman who dreamed of having a big family since her childhood was mistakenly given an abortion pill instead of IVF hormones by a CVS pharmacy, ending her pregnancy, and she said all she got was “sorry.”

According to a report by 8 News Now, Las Vegas resident Timika Thomas in 2019 wanted to add one more to her family of four. Thomas does not come from a big family, so as an adult, she and her husband wanted to make her dreams of a big family come true.

In her 30s, Thomas said she struggled getting pregnant. She had two ectopic pregnancies, which led to having her fallopian tubes removed, according to the report. Even though they were not insured for the costs they would endure, they decided to pay for invitro fertilization (IVF).

The report says that doctors sedated Thomas, inserted two eggs inside her body and sent her home with prescriptions, one of which would trick her body into producing enough hormones to kickstart her pregnancy.

8 News Now investigators obtained documents that outline how two technicians and two pharmacists made a series of errors that led to Thomas being given the wrong medication, which essentially terminated her budding pregnancy on the spot.

“They just killed my baby,” she said to herself at the time. “Both my babies, because I transferred two embryos.”

Per People:

A Las Vegas woman undergoing IVF to expand her family was mistakenly given abortion medication — not fertility medication — by her local pharmacy, terminating her pregnancy in its early stages.

“They just killed my baby,” Tamika Thomas told 8 News Now. “Both my babies, because I transferred two embryos.”

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The mom of 4 had been undergoing in vitro fertilization, a lengthy process in which fertilized embryos are implanted in the uterus to lead to a successful pregnancy, according to the Mayo Clinic. She and her husband had turned to IVF after having her Fallopian tubes removed, and they had paid for the expensive procedure out-of-pocket.

Thomas had just had two embryos transferred when she went to pick up medication to help her body “think it’s pregnant.”



 

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