Maeve Roche:
After a woman swallows the first chemical abortion pill, either mifegymiso or mifepristone, she may believe that her decision to end her unborn child’s life is irreversibly set-in-stone. This is not entirely the case. There is hope.
The Abortion Pill Rescue Network launched a campaign earlier this year to provide women with an abortion pill reversal treatment that has a 64-68 per cent chance of reversing the effects of the first abortion pill and saving the life of the unborn child according to a website on the abortion pill reversal run by Alliance for Life Ontario.
Ideally, 24-72 hours after a woman takes the first abortion pill, which is taken to block the progesterone hormone that is vital to sustaining the pregnancy and maintaining the health of placenta which provides nutrients to the unborn baby, a woman can receive the abortion pill reversal treatment. The treatment itself is a prescription of the progesterone hormone that, when ingested, prevents the mifepristone from binding to the progesterone receptors; the mother then forgoes the second abortion pill which inebriates the induction of a form of labour. By infiltrating the uterus post-primary-abortion-pill with the natural pregnancy hormone, progesterone, it will blunt the effects of the mifepristone and stabilize the uterine lining and placenta.
Alliance for Life Ontario recently launched a petition requesting that Canadian Health Minister, Patty Hajdu require healthcare professionals to inform women who obtain a chemical abortion, of the abortion pill reversal treatment in case that they change their minds. The reality of abortion is that although some women may be entirely sure of their decision, numerous women are coerced into or misinformed on the gravity of their decision. Alliance for Life Ontario’s goal is that women who immediately regret their decision to ingest the first abortion pill, get a second chance to continue the pregnancy. Although the abortion pill reversal has not been proven to work in all cases, it has been reported that that the abortion pill reversal treatment has saved 2,000 unborn children, globally, to-date, according to LifeSiteNews.
The efforts of Alliance for Life Ontario have attracted public criticism after Health Canada rejected two complaints from pro-abortion organizations that claimed that the abortion pill reversal treatment is “ineffective” and that the campaign is “misinforming” women on a treatment that is no more effective than “doing nothing.” Health Canada did not reveal which two organizations filed the complaints, but stated that Alliance for Life was promoting a treatment rather than the prescription of a drug and therefore the complaints would have to be directed to the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons.
After Health Canada dismissed the complaints, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada wrote to Hajdu demanding that the Health Ministry post a public disclaimer to counter what it called the “misinformation” about the abortion pill reversal process. Thus far, there has been no response to the request and no disclaimer has been posted on the Health Canada website.
