Thoughtless abortion clinic sent me picture of my foetus

A WOMAN says she is traumatised after an abortion clinic sent her an ultrasound scan of her terminated foetus.

Nicky Windsor, 28, underwent the procedure on June 28, but was angry she wasn’t offered a single burial.

She complained to Conifer House clinic in Hull — and their response made her blood run cold.

Inside a sympathy card, she found the words “Nicki, hope this gives you some comfort” — and two ultrasound scans of the foetus.

She said: “I couldn't believe my eyes. It's absolutely disgraceful.

"I've never known anything like it. What were they trying to do to me? Why on earth would I want scan pictures?

"Going through a procedure like that is traumatic enough so to have it all brought back to me in the way that they did was absolutely shocking.

"When I first got the card I thought it was a nice gesture but when I opened it up and saw two baby scans it absolutely shattered me. It was just an awful feeling.


"It felt as if I had to go through the loss all over again."

Nicky says the experience has left her mentally shaken - and she's had nightmares.

“Since then I’ve kept thinking of myself holding the baby but when I look down I can’t see a face — it’s just nothing.

“How is it right that they can do that to me? Someone could have got seriously depressed after something like this. It’s sick.”

The clinic claims they sent the card to express their sympathy for Nicky’s sadness at not being offered an alternative to a mass burial.

She claims that she hasn’t had closure for the ordeal, and cannot grieve properly.

“After I had my procedure I should have been given the option for a single burial or cremation,” she said.

“I didn’t have that so I felt like I never got the chance to grieve properly and you can’t get that back.

“It felt like my chance had gone so I made a complaint and made a few calls. I think that’s why they sent me the letter — as a way of saying sorry. But it's still just shocking.”