That’s the CVS near my house in Alexandria. The CVS culprit in this ugly story was in Las Vegas, but it shows the same level of competence and care I’ve experienced.
Here’s the account from Fox Business:
“According to a report by 8 News Now, Las Vegas resident Timika Thomas in 2019 wanted to add one more to her family of four….In her 30s, Thomas said she struggled getting pregnant…. Even though [she and her husband] were not insured for the costs they would endure, they decided to pay for invitro fertilization (IVF). …doctors sedated Thomas, inserted two eggs inside her body and sent her home with prescriptions, one of which would trick her body into producing enough hormones to kickstart her pregnancy. “You have to make yourself think it’s pregnant,” Thomas told the 8 News Now Investigators.Thomas went to her CVS branch pharmacy… took two of her required doses and knew something was wrong. “I started cramping really bad,” Thomas said. … “It was extreme. It was painful.” Thomas checked the prescription bottle and looked up the name of the drug. “The first thing I read is it’s used for abortions,” Thomas said…
[T]wo technicians and two pharmacists made a series of errors that led to Thomas being given the wrong medication, which essentially terminated her budding pregnancy on the spot. “They just killed my baby,” she said to herself at the time. “Both my babies, because I transferred two embryos.”
[The] technician – incorrectly believing she knew the generic name for the brand prescribed by the doctor – entered the wrong name into the prescription. One pharmacist did not catch the error, and another pharmacist failed to counsel Thomas when she came to pick up her medication…”
OK—now what? Thanks to pro-abortion fantasy, if a woman regards her gestating fetus as a human being, it is one, and if the woman regards it as a “clump of cells,” an alien or an inconvenience, it’s nothing. What did Thomas lose as the result of CVS negligence? How would you describe the harm? What is an appropriate remedy? If it isn’t a crime, why not?
Thomas submitted a complaint with the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy, which fined the two pharmacists and suspended their licenses. If they take some mandated training and stay out of trouble, their licenses will be reinstated in a year. After all, it was only two fertilized eggs that they killed. “We’ve apologized to our patient for the prescription incident that occurred,” CVS told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Prescription incident. “The health and well-being of our patients is our number one priority, and we have comprehensive policies and procedures in place to support prescription safety. Prescription errors are very rare, but if one does occur, we take steps to learn from it to continuously improve quality and patient safety,” the company said.
CVS was fined the maximum amount allowed by statute: $10,000.00. Clearly, the two “babies” were not regarded as lives of any kind, and in this culture, which has mangled the concept of pregnancy to incoherence, the official response was consistent with that assumption. The tragedy was certainly not treated like Mr. Gower’s error in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” when his mis-filled prescription kills a young boy. He goes to prison.
Ethics Alarms 
I would start my response with something like “what a comedy of errors CVS committed,” but that would only be appropriate if CVS had mistakenly given the woman Ex-Lax instead of Life Savers. The consequences here are no laughing matter. Two lives were terminated. Even if liberal thinking considers it a blob of cells, a woman that wants to keep her baby considers it a life and it should be treated as such.
Has a crime been committed? From Timika Thomas’ perspective, it would seem so. One could start with manslaughter (since it appears to have been completely unintentional) and move from there to adding charges of negligence, since at least one CVS employee filled a wrong prescription without checking and a pharmacist completely overlooked his/her obligation to consult with the patient.
I’ll be curious to read more replies and see where others land.
It sounds like manslaughter to me.
What about financial liability? Invitro is pricy.
This was my first thought. CVS, at a minimum, owes the couple for the cost of the procedure (including all related miscellaneous costs like the co-pays) that their employees’ negligence ruined. The couple should be able to try again.
–Dwayne
Negligent homicide by the staff, and strict financial liability for the corporation, are evident here, in my view. I know this sounds harsh to some, but so is the killing of an unborn child.
Over the past decade, my wife and I caught several errors in prescription fulfillment in our own meager regimes of pharmaceuticals. This happened at three of our previous insurance-preferred pharmacies. It is also reported anecdotally by a number of people I know.
Fortunately for us, we detected the errors before taking any wrongly prescribed drugs, and we learned to double-check everything, every time. (These errors also gave us more motivation to improve our nutrition and fitness in order to escape prescription drugs altogether.)
These incidents led me to the inescapable conclusion that pharmacies -like many other public and private endeavors- are consistently hiring unserious people to perform very serious tasks. Filling prescriptions is not the same as stocking the candy aisle.
I’ll risk sounding like a plaintiff’s attorney here to say that the only way these enterprises usually learn their lesson is when they are sued into awareness.
This story makes me wish I had the credentials of a personal injury lawyer.