By the time Emma Murphy learned that a drug she took to manage epilepsy could harm babies in the womb, her daughter Lauren had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. She co-founded In-Fact (the Independent Fetal Anti- Convulsant Trust) to prevent other families from being victimized by a scandal deemed bigger than thalidomide.
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(Janet Williams and Emma Murphy, co-founders of In-Fact, to support other parents of children affected by sodium valproate. Photograph: Annie Challenger/The Guardian)