An Idaho couple is suing a New Mexico Planned Parenthood after an abortion failed and they were left with “an additional unplanned child.”
Bianca Coons and her partner, Cristobal Ruiz, traveled 700 miles to an Albuquerque Planned Parenthood in 2016 when Coons was six weeks pregnant for a medical abortion, or the abortion pill, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
They already had two children and were “destitute and attempting to maintain and limit the size of their family,” according to the lawsuit.
The abortion pill requires two rounds of medication. Mifepristone, taken the first day, causes the lining of the uterus to release the unborn baby. Misoprostol, taken up to 72 hours later, sparks contractions and the delivery of the dead child.
Coons and Ruiz returned to Idaho after taking the first round. She then became nauseous and visited an emergency room, where she was told her baby had a heartbeat and was healthy, according to the lawsuit cited in the Albuquerque Journal. She subsequently took the second round of medicine, according to the suit.
But the abortion pill combination did not work, and when she learned she was still pregnant, she did not want to go through with a traditional abortion. The abortion pill can be taken only in the first few weeks of pregnancy.
“The fetus had now developed to somewhere around nine weeks,” the…
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