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About one year ago, Rebecca Medina, a 25-year-old nursing student in Orange County, California, faced a defining moment in her life. Conflicted about having an abortion, she took the 200 mg mifepristone abortion pill at the last possible moment, took a nap, and when she woke she realized she had made a horrible mistake. She wanted her unborn child to live.
“Something was telling me not to. I went back and forth. ‘I want to do it; no I can’t do it.’ I hadn’t dated the baby’s father very long. I had eight months nursing school yet to go and thought I am not ready. I need to finish school. It just wasn’t convenient,” she said.
But she sat down at a computer and Googled this question: "Is it possible to reverse the abortion pill?” She clicked on a website, AbortionPillReversal.com. She called their 800 number and the person who answered told her about a new little-known procedure, using progesterone, to counteract mifepristone, potentially allowing the pregnancy to continue to term. It has to be used as soon as possible after taking mifepristone.
In her case, it worked. Her son, Elijah Gabriel, is now four months old. “People don’t know about [abortion pill reversal]. People I went to nursing school with had not heard about it.”
But that's changing.
Hundreds of pro-life physicians are throwing their support behind the abortion pill reversal process that—to date—has saved the lives of unborn children whose mothers took the abortion pill and then changed their minds.
“Many women are ambivalent about their abortion decision, and there is increasing evidence that many abortions are coerced. These women welcome the opportunity to reverse their initial decision, and should be given accurate information about this process,” said physicians Mary L. Davenport, director of public policy, and Donna J. Harrison, executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life ...
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