Kalina V.E. Gillum and Braden C. Mull ordered the abortion drug misoprostol from India with the intent to end the life of their third-trimester unborn child, simply because they did not want him. There were several problems with their plan, however.
The first of these was that the abortion pill process is designed to be used earlier than the third trimester. At this late stage in pregnancy, an abortion via abortion pills was more likely to fail regardless of how it was administered.
The second problem was that misoprostol is the second pill in the abortion pill regimen. This pill is only designed to cause contractions and allow the mother to give birth to a child starved and suffocated to death by the first pill, mifepristone.
Gillum gave birth to a born-alive child while she was alone in an apartment. She texted Mull, who came to put the child in a plastic bag and clean up the bathroom before taking his girlfriend (and not the child) to the emergency room. Medical professionals quickly noted that Gillum still had an umbilical cord attached and notified the police. When police found the child, they found the child dead. The coroner said there was "nothing medically wrong" with the baby.
If at-home abortions continue to increase with the increased availability of abortion pills, situations like this will be a more common occurrence.
