Jillian Philips sits with her children Macy, 10, and 4-year old twins, Emmett and Jude, right, in their home, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in North Brookfield, Mass. Macy holds a teddy bear that houses a silver heart-shaped urn with some of the ashes of her deceased sister, Emilia, who died at 5 days old in 2015. Philips, who used the drug Mifepristone to manage her miscarriage, is concerned that other women who miscarry could suffer if the pill, also used for abortions, is taken off the market.
Less than a year after losing her daughter Emilia at five days old, Jillian Phillips suffered a miscarriage. It was Halloween weekend in 2016, and her doctor said she could wait for it to end naturally, have a surgical procedure or take medication. She chose the medicine, passed the remains of her nine-week pregnancy at home and buried them in a memorial garden, near some of Emilia’s ashes.
“Once I found out that the baby inside me was no longer viable, I didn’t want to just walk around carrying the emotional trauma of that,” said Phillips, a 41-year-old single mother of three from North Brookfield, Mass. “You just kind of want it finished. And the medication works pretty quickly.” But the future of this common miscarriage treatment is in peril. The pill, mifepristone, is used in abortions, making it a target.
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