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April 20, 2015
Reversing the Abortion Pill
Giving Women and Their Babies a Second Chance
Eric Metaxas
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Do you think that it's impossible to reverse an abortion? Well, praise God,
think again!
A young woman ten weeks pregnant walks into her local Planned Parenthood
office, grieving the death of her father. She thinks she just can't cope
with a pregnancy right now. Planned Parenthood gives her the abortion pill
RU-486. She takes it and leaves the office, but hours later, she regrets her
decision.
What does she do?
As we all know, there's a growing body of literature documenting the
emotional devastation, depression, and guilt many woman suffer after having
an abortion. Some, like this woman in Arizona, start having regrets during
the several days it can take for the abortion pill procedure to complete its
course.
In this case, the woman goes back to Planned Parenthood the next morning
looking for help. But she's told that the abortion pill cannot be reversed,
and she could face complications if she doesn't finish off the series of
pills.
Well, right there in the waiting room she Googles "abortion pill reversal"
on her cell phone, and reaches a national call center that links women in
the midst of this kind of abortion with physicians willing to help save the
lives of their unborn babies.
Within 45 minutes, she is in the office of Dr. Allan Sawyer, an Arizona
OB-GYN. He shows her an ultrasound of her two-and-a-half-month-old unborn
baby, which has a heartbeat and is moving around in her womb. He says it
might be possible to save the child and prescribes the hormone progesterone
to reverse the effects of RU-486. Now safely through the first trimester,
this grateful woman's baby is due in September.
According to the pro-life Center for Arizona Policy, this is no fluke.
Although the Abortion Pill Reversal protocol is pretty new, already, 80
children have been born because of it, and more than 60 pregnancies, like
this woman's, are ongoing due to this procedure.
Dr. Sawyer cannot be written off as a fly-by-night character, either. He is
the former president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians
and he has delivered more than 10,000 babies on three continents. In
testimony before a state legislative committee, he said the abortion pill
works by attacking progesterone in the pregnant woman, which kills the baby
in utero. This effect can be reversed if progesterone is given to her
quickly.
In early April, Arizona Governor Ducey signed into law a requirement that
physicians must inform women who take the abortion pill that the pill's
effects may be reversible.
Who could be against that? Only those who say it infringes on a woman's
"right to choose." Except that they don't seem so eager to guarantee the
right of a woman to choose to have her baby.
Now, one lawmaker who opposed the bill said administering high doses of
progesterone to block the abortion pill's effects has not been studied and
is an unproven medical procedure. In his testimony, however, Sawyer dealt
with that objection, saying, "The safety of progesterone supplementation
during pregnancy has been well established, and this is used routinely for
high risk pregnancies such as those conceived through in vitro fertilization
and also for pregnancies at risk of preterm labor."
Thank goodness that we still have doctors like Allan Sawyer, and legislators
willing to vote their consciences as well as common sense in support of the
dignity of human life. Women deserve all the facts. Especially when it might
save a life.
Come to BreakPoint.org, click on this commentary, and we'll link you to more
information on reversing the abortion pill.
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Next Steps:
Women have the right to know all the facts. And as Eric said, when it comes
to a medication abortion they deserve to know there may be an option for
reversal, a second chance. For more information, check out the Abortion Pill
Reversal website plus the articles linked below.
Resources:
A Second Chance
Center for Arizona Policy | March 13
Abortion Pill Reversal
website and hotline
Arizona House approves abortion restrictions
Mary Jo Pitzl | The Republic | March 24, 2015
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