Young Lady Dies After Medical Abortion

What a waste.

The inquest heard that Miss Jones was a Christian and a keen member of the local church youth club who sang with her family at their chapel in north Wales.

She met Naeem Muzaffar at City of Bristol College where she went to study for three A-levels, and became ‘besotted’ with him. Her mother said that her daughter opted for an abortion to avoid conflict with her Muslim boyfriend’s family.

Mrs Jones told the hearing at Flax Bourton, near Bath: ‘Manon found it very hard to make a decision to terminate the pregnancy, she wanted to keep the child but there were difficult circumstances which she had to consider with her boyfriend’s family and their Muslim religion.’

The teenager took the first dose of medication to terminate the pregnancy on June 10, 2005, and the second two days later.

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Four days later she left for a holiday abroad with friends but cut it short because she felt so unwell, and on June 23 she returned to Bristol, where she admitted herself to Southmead Hospital.

When Mrs Jones arrived her daughter was already in intensive care, following seizures and cardiac arrest.

Doctors took the decision to turn off Miss Jones’ life support on June 27, 2005.

Dr Hugh White told the inquest a post-mortem examination revealed the student died of hypovolemia, an abnormal decrease in blood volume, and shock caused by ‘retained productsof conception’  -  the embryo.

Hat tip Jed Swartz.