Pharmacy accidentally gives abortion pills to patient undergoing IVF

A Las Vegas woman who underwent in vitro fertilization was left heartbroken after a CVS pharmacy accidentally gave her her abortion pills that took the lives of her unborn children.

Timika Thomas, a mother of four who previously had her fallopian tubes removed, recalls that she began “cramping really bad” when issued Misoprostol instead of doctor-prescribed vaginal suppositories in 2019, she recently told station KLAS.

“I started cramping really bad … My cramping went beyond that … It was extreme. It was painful,” Thomas said.

After taking two doses, the IVF patient checked the bottle she was given from the North Vegas pharmacy.

“The first thing I read is it’s used for abortions,” she added.

“They just killed my baby … Both my babies, because I transferred two embryos.”

The Nevada TV station reported that it had obtained documents outlining that it was two technicians along with two pharmacists responsible for the fatal error.

It was shown that one technician misunderstood the generic name for the brand Thomas’ doctor had prescribed her and had entered the incorrect name into the prescription.

A pharmacist failed to spot the error and another did not counsel Thomas at the time she retrieved the pills, according to the KLAS.

“It [the error] would have been caught because then they would have had to have the medicine in their hand,” Thomas said. “And they would have said, ‘Oh, this is Misoprostol or Cytotek, have you taken this before?’ And I would have said, ‘No.’ ”

After complaining to the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy, the two pharmacists faced fines and provisionally lost their licenses — ones which can be reinstated over the next year.

“It’s a human error,” one of the pharmacists testified. “It was just a human error, and I’m so sorry.”

CVS was also fined a statute max of $10,000 for the incident.

“We’ve apologized to our patient for the prescription incident that occurred in 2019 and have cooperated with the Nevada Board of Pharmacy in this matter,” CVS said to the TV station in a statement.

“The health and well-being of our patients is our number one priority and we have comprehensive policies and procedures in place to support prescription safety. Prescription errors are very rare, but if one does occur, we take steps to learn from it in order to continuously improve quality and patient safety.”

Now, four years later, the scar remains open for Thomas and her family.

“All I got was a sorry,” the grieving mother said.

“It will never be good enough.”