Eight years ago, mifepristone, "the abortion pill," claimed the life of Holly Patterson, an 18-year-old who received the drug from Planned Parenthood and used it to terminate a pregnancy.
She died seven days after taking the drug that is also known as RU-486 and 15 minutes before a scheduled follow-up appointment.
Holly's father, Monty Patterson, did not learn of her pregnancy until a doctor at the hospital told him just moments before her death.
"I felt like I had been left in the dark," he said. "I didn't even know what the abortion pill was. I couldn't believe Holly had gotten pregnant and had gone to get an abortion with her boyfriend.... I was mainly shocked."...
Dr. Alan Cairns | 6/22/2009
Ray Comfort | 10/4/2011
