Samara Douma:
In March, Pregnancy Help News reported the first successful Abortion Pill Reversal story in India. Her firstborn now a toddler, Priya (name changed at her request) was ready to direct more of her focus back toward her career when she found out she was pregnant. Priya decided to have a chemical abortion.
After taking the first of two drugs involved in a chemical abortion, Priya’s husband said, “I don’t think we’re doing the right thing.” Priya turned to her doctor for help in reversing the process and was told that nothing could be done.
Determined to save her unborn child, Priya, with the help of her family, began her own research before finding the Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) hotline. From there, she reached Pregnancy Hotline India, which directed her to a local doctor where she was immediately put on progesterone.
Priya returned to her obstetrician for further care in her pregnancy but was refused since she had started APR protocol. The obstetrician advised Priya that APR could harm the baby and lead to malformations.
Priya’s radiographer was also skeptical that the APR treatment would work, but the ultrasound showed that Priya’s baby was alive and healthy. Despite the ultrasound proof, Priya’s obstetrician still wouldn’t believe that progesterone would work to reverse the effects of the abortion pill until she saw the living, healthy baby delivered.
A few months later, Priya gave birth to a healthy baby girl, proving that APR protocol can be successful. Now, almost one year later, Priya and her husband are still “over the moon” with their daughter.
Priya’s daughter is one of the many babies who have been saved through Abortion Pill Reversal treatment. Since Dr. George Delgado started it in 2009, Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) has helped women in 96 countries across the world and has saved more than 6000 babies.
In 2024 alone, approximately 2100 women who had taken the abortion pill contacted the hotline and spoke with one of APRN nurses. Of that number, 80 per cent were put in contact with an APR provider in their area, and 90 per cent of those women were started on APR protocol.
Dr. Dermot Kearney, who offers Abortion Pill Reversal treatment to women in the United Kingdom, spoke at the 2023 National March for Life in Ottawa about the work he and Dr. Eileen Reilly did to help women who had begun the chemical abortion process and changed their minds. As of 2023, the two doctors had saved 36 babies from chemical abortions in the U.K.
The abortion pill process consists of two drugs taken a day or two apart. The first drug, Mifepristone, stops progesterone, a natural hormone, from maintaining a healthy uterine lining which keeps the fetus alive. The second drug, Misoprostol, starts contractions to expel the child and placenta from the womb.
If the second drug has not yet been taken, progesterone (APR) has a 64 per cent to 68 per cent chance of saving the child when taken 24-72 hours after the first abortion pill is taken. Dr. Kearney shared the statistics of survival for a pre-born child if Abortion Pill Reversal protocol hasn’t been followed. If both abortion pills have been taken, there is a less than 2% chance of survival. If only the first drug is taken, the child has a 20% chance of survival. Dr. Kearney equated APR to a miracle drug considering the save rate for preborn children.
Dr. Kearney also addressed the three lies the abortion industry tells about APR protocol.
The first is that women don’t need APR because they won’t change their minds. The stories of Priya and thousands of other women who chose to save their children show that this is untrue.
The second lie is that APR treatment doesn’t work. The 36 babies that Dr. Kearney and Dr. Reilly have been saved in the U.K. and the thousands of others around the world are evidence that APR treatment can work.
The third lie is that APR is dangerous and can cause complications. Dr. Kearney said that there is no evidence for this, while there is ample evidence that the abortion pill can cause “horrendous complications, including death.”
In his concluding remarks responding to the backlash received from pro-abortion medical professionals in response to his work to save the preborn, Dr. Kearney said, “People over here say they’re ‘pro-choice,’ yet we were the ones helping the women who had decided by their own choice that they wanted to try to save their babies.”
There is an Abortion Pill Reversal hotline in Canada that can connect someone who regrets their decision to take the first abortion pill to a medical professional or doctor near them. The hotline can be reached at 1-888-612-3960 and more information can be found at abortionpillreversal.ca.
