During the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns, the Abortion Pill Rescue Network received a record number of calls. In February a mother gave birth to twins who were saved through the abortion pill reversal. Early this year a little boy named Isaiah celebrated his first birthday thanks to the Abortion Pill Rescue Network. To date, the Abortion Pill Reversal Network has saved over 1,000 babies. Now abortion pill reversal websites are currently under attack as a pro-abortion “watchdog” group, Campaign for Accountability (CFA), demands that the Food and Drug Administration remove these websites.
Abortion pill reversal websites offer lifesaving hope. When a woman begins the abortion reversal process, the abortion industry has already made their money off of her, so why are the abortion industry’s allies dead set on taking down these websites? Because women who change their minds and find help from abortion pill reversal groups to save their babies challenge the abortion industry’s narratives. By choosing hope, they demonstrate that women do not need abortion in order to be successful and they promote a culture of life through their actions. Abortion pill reversals empower women to choose life, and that threatens the abortion industry and their allies.
In the CFA’s letter to the FDA, they describe chemical abortions as “safe and effective,” ignoring the dangers of the abortion pill. Many of the most vocal critics of the abortion pill have also been quite vocal in their support for lifting the FDA’s risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) protocol on the abortion pill. These voices include the Guttmacher Institute, as well as Rewire, a pro-abortion website that has taken up CFA’s call to remove abortion pill reversal websites. Lifting the FDA’s REMS protocol would enable women to obtain a chemical abortion without even meeting the prescribing doctor in person and without medical confirmation that they are pregnant, how far along they are, or that they do not have an ectopic pregnancy. Live Action has pointed out that while the CFA calls for the FDA to remove abortion pill websites, the FDA has turned a blind eye to websites illegally selling the abortion pill, as well as the abortion industry’s choice to ignore the REMS protocol that they claim is such an impediment.
Opponents of abortion pill reversal point to a study that was released last year by an abortionist to build their argument against the procedure. The study, which raises serious ethical questions, has been presented as “proving” the dangers of abortion pill reversal, even though it had a sample size of only 12 participants and was halted because three of the women involved experienced dangerous side effects associated with the abortion pill. Of the women involved, only one who had begun the abortion pill reversal experienced heavy bleeding, and her bleeding stopped on its own in three hours. Unlike the women who did not begin the reversal process, she did not need surgery or a transfusion. If anything, the study further demonstrated the documented dangers of the abortion pill. Abortion-pushing groups that are calling for the FDA to remove abortion pill reversal websites are not driven by the facts but by a desire to further the goals of the abortion industry.
Demanding that the FDA remove abortion pill websites is not driven by a desire to protect women, but an obsession with protecting the abortion industry. Compromising women’s safety and refusing to offer hope is simply cruel, and it is beyond hypocritical that many of the voices decrying abortion pill reversal simultaneously support the removal of safety restrictions on the abortion pill.
