Manon Jones, an 18-year-old Christian, took the abortion pill RU-486 because she feared her preborn baby would cause conflict within her Muslim boyfriend's family. Just two weeks later, she was dead.
An inquest in Britain has determined her 2005 death cannot be blamed on the hospital, the Daily Mail reported.
The teen took the first dose of medication on June 10, 2005, and the second two days later. On June 15, Jones felt light-headed and experienced heavy bleeding, but the hospital couldn't find anything wrong. Days later, she checked herself back into the hospital.
Dr. Lucy Jackson, who treated Jones, told the inquest that doctors initially failed to diagnose the condition because "the hospital was extremely busy."
RU-486 has been approved for use in the U.S. since 2000. It has been linked to deaths of at least six women in the U.S. and six internationally.
"Sadly, families continue to bury their wives, mothers and daughters who died after taking this deadly drug," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action. "If any other drug were responsible for so much loss of life, it would be pulled from the market and an investigation would be under way. Apparently, abortion politics make such justice unlikely when it comes to this drug."
