Shelley Hall, like any excited expecting parent, already had a name picked out for her daughter and had her sonograms posted on her fridge.
But at Hall’s 10-week prenatal appointment last month, there wasn’t a heartbeat. As she coped with the “most devastating news of my life” she had to move quickly to remove leftover tissue in her cervix to prevent an infection and the first step, her doctor said, was taking abortion pills.
