{"id":194230,"date":"2019-01-14T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194230"},"modified":"2019-01-10T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T03:58:21","slug":"baby-dies-doctor-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-dies-doctor-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman’s baby dies after doctor accidentally prescribes abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman\u2019s preborn baby died after a California doctor allegedly negligently prescribed the medication used in the\u00a0abortion pill<\/a>\u00a0regimen to a patient seeking prenatal care, according to a California lawsuit<\/a> filed Monday in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court.\u00a0According to her attorney, Lorena Anderson was between five and seven weeks pregnant when she sought prenatal care at the Bishop\u2019s Peak Women\u2019s Health Center on March 20, 2018. \u201cShe was very excited to learn she was pregnant, and she was looking forward to being a mother,\u201d said Garett May<\/a>, Anderson\u2019s lawyer, to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.<\/p>\n

After confirming her pregnancy via a pregnancy test and ultrasound<\/a>, Dr. Maria Rasul \u201ccarelessly and negligently\u201d prescribed 200 mcg of Misoprostol, known by the brand name Cytotec and commonly called \u201cthe abortion pill,\u201d without informing Anderson what it was and that she had done so.<\/p>\n