A Las Vegas lady attempting IVF to extend her family was offered abortion medicine rather than fertility drugs by her local pharmacy, resulting in the termination of her pregnancy in its early stages.

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

According to the Mayo Clinic, the mother of four had been undergoing in vitro fertilization, a protracted procedure in which fertilized embryos are put in the uterus to result in a healthy pregnancy. After having her fallopian tubes removed, she and her husband proceeded to IVF, which they had paid for out of pocket.

Thomas had just had two embryos transplanted when she went to the pharmacy to get medicine to make her body “think it’s pregnant.”

However, pharmacy staff at her CVS in North Las Vegas provided her with Misoprostol, which is used for “medication abortion,” according to the National Institute of Health.

Thomas filed a complaint with the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy, which found that the pharmacy made a series of errors: when no one could read Thomas’ doctor’s handwriting on the prescription, technicians guessed and gave her Misoprostol instead of calling the doctor, according to board documents.

The pharmacist then failed to discuss with Thomas what to expect with Misoprostol, which would have warned them that the wrong prescription had been supplied. According to an article in Pharmacy Times, the trade news publication for pharmacists, “Pharmacists will counsel patients on how to take misoprostol and what to expect with this medication.”

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

During the pharmacy board hearing, one of the pharmacists mentioned CVS cuts, which left them overwhelmed.

“You can’t expect one pharmacist to do drop-off, pickup, prescription verification, calling providers, and calling patients,” she said, noting that pharmacists also deliver vaccinations.

“I understand that people make mistakes,” Thomas admitted throughout the hearing. “But that mistake took something from me.”

The pharmacy did not lose its license but was fined $10,000, according to 8 News Now, adding that because this occurred in 2019, Thomas is unable to sue the drugstore because the statute of limitations had passed.

“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 stated in a statement. Our patient’s health and well-being are our first priorities, and we have thorough rules and procedures in place to promote prescription safety. Prescription mistakes are extremely rare, but when they do occur, we make efforts to learn from them so that we may continually improve quality and patient safety.”

And, as Thomas observes, “All I got was sorry.”

“It will never be good enough.”