‘Heavenly Father, What Did I Just Do?’ New Hope for Women Who Want to Reverse Their Medical Abortion
“I don’t feel enough people know about the progesterone protocol right now, but the message is getting out. The abortion pill reversal process is very effective and safe. There are no increased birth defects.” -Dr. George Delgado
Lorie Johnson : Apr 6, 2018 : CBN NeClosews
[CBN News] Women who change their minds after starting a so-called medical abortion can safely reverse course and give birth to a healthy baby. Medical abortions are when the expectant mother takes a number of pills that lead to the unborn child’s death. (Photo: Creative Commons/via Pixabay)
About one-third of all abortions are medical abortions, but a new study shows nearly three-fourths of abortion pill reversals are successful.
Four-year-old Zachariah is one of those success stories. His mother, Rebekah Buell, told CBN News that she was 19 when she went to Planned Parenthood for a medical abortion. The process involves taking a mifepristone pill, also known as RU-486, at the office and taking a different pill at home the following day, where the child is expelled.
“I knew it was wrong, but I thought, ‘God, You’re just going to have to forgive me,'” Rebekah said.
Rebekah recalled feeling an overwhelming sense of sorrow and starting to cry immediately after taking that first pill in the Planned Parenthood office. “The woman who gave me the pill said, ‘Just because you’re sad doesn’t mean you’re making the wrong decision.'”
But Rebekah couldn’t shake the intense feeling of regret. “I just thought, ‘Heavenly Father, what did I just do? What is this pill doing to my baby right now? Is it hurting my baby? God, if there’s a way out of this please help me find it. And if there’s not, please help me forgive myself.'”
She went home and searched on her computer the phrase: “I took the first abortion pill and changed my mind.” The search brought up the Abortion Pill Reversal website. She called the phone number on the website and was matched with a nearby doctor who administered progesterone injections for several weeks to reverse the effects of mifepristone.
When a Planned Parenthood representative called to find out how her abortion went, Rebekah informed the woman she was attempting to keep her baby. “She said, ‘Do you have any idea what you’re doing? The medication you took can cause severe abnormalities.’ So I was so scared during my pregnancy I couldn’t sleep. But Zacariah was born perfectly healthy, is still perfectly healthy, so incredibly smart and witty.”
Dr. George Delgado, a member physician of the Catholic Medical Association, and the medical director of Culture of Life Family Services in San Diego, California, told CBN News Rebekah’s experience is typical of mothers who change their mind after taking the first abortion pill.
“I’m very heartened and excited with the success rates of the progesterone protocol,” he said. “If you start the abortion pill process, hope is not lost. You have another chance.”
Dr. Delgado helped author a new medical study looking at the effectiveness of progesterone to reverse the abortion pill. The study is being published in the peer-reviewed medical journal, Issues in Law and Medicine.
The study examined 261 successful mifepristone reversals. It showed the success rates were 68% with the high-dose oral progesterone protocol and 64% with the injected progesterone protocol; both were significantly better rates than the 25% survival rate if no treatment is offered.
There was no increased risk of birth defects or preterm births.
Progesterone is the hormone essential to the maintenance of a normal, healthy pregnancy. Mifepristone acts as a progesterone receptor blocker.
“I don’t feel enough people know about the progesterone protocol right now, but the message is getting out,” Dr. Delgado said, “The abortion pill reversal process is very effective and safe. There are no increased birth defects.”
Dr. Delgado said about 450 healthy babies have been born after successfully reversing the abortion pill, and 125 women are still pregnant after a reversal. He said the Abortion Pill Reversal Hotline receives about 60 phone calls per month from women who changed their minds after taking the first abortion pill.
California Students Use Toilet Protest to Fight Campus Abortion Bill
Heather Sells : Apr 6, 2018 : CBN News
If California passes the bill, it would become the first state in the nation to require campus health centers to dispense abortion drugs.
[CBN News] On Wednesday, pro-life students brought a toilet and toilet seats to the University of California president’s office in Oakland to make their point: women can die after having an abortion and universities should not be dispensing abortion drugs. (Photo: Pro-life protest against abortion pill on campus/Students for Life/CBN News)
Anna Arend, the northern California regional coordinator for Students for Life of America, organized the protest. “We wanted a display that was both attention-grabbing and conveyed the reality of RU-486,” she told CBN News, noting FDA statistics that show that 14 women have died after taking the abortion drug. “A toilet is no place for a woman to die and no place for a child to die,” she said.
California lawmakers are debating an abortion bill that would encourage more women to have abortions on campus. SB 320 would require university health centers to offer the abortion drug RU-486 free to students. The state Senate has approved the bill and the Assembly is currently considering it.
Abortion advocates say if campus health centers offered abortions it would provide easier access for students who otherwise have to find transportation to off-campus sites.
But [pro-life] advocates say it would lead to more women enduring their abortion on-campus after taking the abortion pills. This, they contend, would prove traumatic as many women would be using dormitory bathrooms to endure their painful ordeal.
If California passes the bill, it would become the first state in the nation to require campus health centers to dispense abortion drugs.
Concerns about liability and funding could ultimately stop the legislation if politics don’t first.
A spokeswoman for the California State chancellor’s office said the bill could force severe costs for liability insurance, safety improvements, medical training and round-the-clock phone support for emergencies.
Arend says the anti-abortion students also plan to protest at the California State chancellor’s office next week as well as eleven other California campuses.
This Bishop is Calling for a “#MeToo Movement for Unborn Children Targeted for Abortion
Lisa Bourne : Apr 6, 2018 : Lifesitenews.com
“Catholic political leaders have a serious obligation in this matter. Abortion is sinful; it is immoral. It destroys life and exploits women. Disciples of Christ do not support abortion. Period.” -Bishop Thomas Tobin
(Providence, RI)—[Lifesitenews.com] Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin has called for a “#MeToo movement for unborn children” with the aim of ending abortion. (Photo: Bishop Thomas Tobin/Facebook/via LifeSiteNews)
The Catholic bishop used Twitter on Tuesday to send out the call.
The bishop said in his tweet that abortion equated to “Capital punishment for babies.” He also called abortion the “exploitation of vulnerable women.”
The “#MeToo” movement is a widespread social media campaign to help demonstrate the existence of sexual violence and harassment. The hashtag phrase is often posted along with stories of victims sharing their stories.
The bishop also dressed down the abortion lobby’s appropriation of civil rights for its promotion of abortion in the tweet.
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“We hear about ‘reproductive rights’ or ‘right to choose.’ There is no ‘right’ to end the life of an unborn child. We need a #MeToo movement for unborn children. Abortion: Capital punishment for babies, and exploitation of vulnerable women. Wrong, just wrong!
Bishop Tobin identifies himself as “ardently pro-life” in his Twitter profile.
He was forthright about abortion another time on Twitter recently, tweeting rather frankly on March 15 how Catholics cannot support abortion.
“To be clear: Catholics cannot provide, support or encourage abortion,” the bishop stated. “Catholic political leaders have a serious obligation in this matter. Abortion is sinful; it is immoral. It destroys life and exploits women. Disciples of Christ do not support abortion. Period.”
He also challenged gender politics in a tweet earlier last month:
“Just read that some Mother’s Day cards this year will be “gender-neutral,” avoiding the word ‘Mother,'” he said. “They’ll be ‘Guardian’ cards, or ‘Happy You’ cards. So it’s official: our culture has become completely irrational.”
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