Santa Barbara Surgeon Calls for Expanded Abortion Services, Creation of Women’s Health Task Force
By Dr. Katrina Mitchell “The capsules were being malarone, not misoprostol.” My obstetrician colleague in Tanzania, East Africa, produced a chilling discovery about medication I had obtained in a local pharmacy to use for terminating a patient’s being pregnant. Malarone is a impressive antimalarial agent that could have killed anyone in the approved amount for misoprostol, one particular of the medications utilized in healthcare abortions. For the duration of the four years I labored as a surgeon in Tanzania —…