A nonprofit pro-life pregnancy center and a pro-life group are suing California’s attorney general as they try to stop pregnancy centers from advertising abortion pill reversal services that can abort a child. Can save life.
alliance to defend freedom (ADF), a nonprofit legal group, has filed a lawsuit against state Attorney General Rob Bonta on behalf of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and SCV Pregnancy Center in Santa Clarita, California.
As CBN News reportedBonta filed a lawsuit last year against Heartbeat International (HBI) and RealOptions, two faith-based pregnancy centers, to prevent them from advertising abortion pill reversal services, which she claimed would prevent abortions. The natural hormone used to reverse the pill is “risky” and “has no credible scientific support.”
Although that claim has been promoted by the abortion industry, pro-life doctors have refuted it with anecdotal evidence of lives saved.
According to RealOptions, a pregnant woman’s body produces the natural hormone progesterone to maintain the pregnancy. In chemical abortion, the drug mifepristone blocks progesterone and starves the baby. The protocol for reversing the abortion pill involves giving additional progesterone within 72 hours of taking mifepristone so that the abortion drug can be “outnumbered and outcompeted” so that the baby can survive.
Studies show possibility of reversing abortion pill Saved over 5,000 unborn lives And one study found 64-68% success rate,
The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and SCV Pregnancy Center are challenging the Attorney General, saying they want to “truly inform the public” that it may be possible to save a baby’s life if mifepristone is used. .
The lawsuit states, “If defendant Rob Bonta, the California Attorney General, had his way, these babies would not be alive today. That’s because he tried to prevent pregnancy centers from telling the public about this life-saving option.” Are demanding an injunction.” ,
In a 30-page complaint, Bonta alleged that there is no evidence that the abortion pill protocol reverses abortion or even “contributes to the continuation of pregnancy.” They also claim that pregnancy resource centers have “taken advantage of pregnant patients at a very vulnerable time in their lives, using false and misleading claims to lure them in and mislead them about a potentially risky procedure.”
“People who are struggling with the complex decision to have an abortion deserve support and trustworthy guidance – not lies and misinformation,” Bonta said in a statement.
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But as CBN News has reported on multiple occasions, doctors who use the abortion pill say it works and can save lives if done on time.
A 2018 peer-reviewed study published by Dr. Jorge Delgado in the medical journal Issues in Law and Medicine followed 754 women who wanted to stop their chemical abortions that were already underway. They found that 68% of women who started reversal treatment were able to give birth to a healthy baby.
Bonta filed an injunction to ban pro-life centers from advertising the life-saving drug.
ADF says their actions violate the First Amendment rights of pregnancy centers to speak freely and practice their religious beliefs.
Caleb Dalton, senior attorney for ADF, said, “Access to information is a hallmark of a free society and is essential to making informed medical choices. But California’s Attorney General is silencing pregnancy centers and withholding information about life-saving medical options.” are censoring.”
She added, “Attorney General Bonta and his colleagues at Planned Parenthood may not like it, but the truth is that many women regret their abortions, and some opt for chemical abortions before taking the second drug in the abortion medication procedure. “Women deserve to know all their options every step of the way.”
Dalton said, “Every woman should have the option to reconsider abortion, and the pro-life pregnancy centers we represent in this case should inform women truthfully about that option.” “We are asking the court to affirm the freedom of pregnancy centers to tell the public about this legitimate, life-saving treatment.”
