Abortion Pill Reversal Bill on its Way to Desk of Idaho Governor Otter

By Dave Andrusko
National Right to Life

When, as expected, Gov. Butch Otter signs SB 1243, Idaho will join Utah, Arkansas, South Dakota, and Arizona in updating their informed consent packet so that women will know they may change their mind about a chemical abortion half-way through the two-drug technique—the Abortion Pill Reversal.

Yesterday on a vote of 55-11, the Idaho House joined the Senate, which had earlier passed SB 1243 on an equally overwhelming vote of 29-6. In both houses the vote was straight party-line: all Republicans in favor, all Democrats opposed.

Chemical abortions [“RU-486”] involve two drugs: Mifeprex, taken at the abortion clinic, and then 48-72 hours later, misoprostol, a prostaglandin. The Abortion Pill Reversal technique is premised on the woman not taking the second drug and being given large dosages of progesterone in order to counteract the effect of the first pill.

According to all media accounts, the debate Monday in the House was fiery. Pro-abortion Democrats charged that the technique was unethical and unproven. Tell that to the mothers of over 300 healthy babies who have been saved by this reversal protocol and the over 100 women are currently pregnant awaiting delivery.

Credit goes to Betsy Russell of the Spokesman-Review who provided many quotes from House speakers on both sides.

“These are babies we’re talking about,” Rep. Karey Hanks told the House. “It’s difficult, it’s almost impossible for me to speak because I feel this so strongly. These aborted, these are pre-born babies. I just want to remind us who are Republicans that in our platform, it talks about right to life, that we reaffirm our support for the sanctity of life from conception to natural death.”

Rep. Barbara Ehardt said

“What a humbling and historic opportunity we have right now … to give them hope again … to restore life, to be a mother… Truly this is historic, why wouldn’t we want to be a part of this today, why wouldn’t we want to be a part of something that could potentially change lives? … Life is precious and we should know that,” she said. “Please vote life.”

Russell reported that Rep. John VanderWoude added he was moved by what he saw at the committee hearing on the bill.

“I don’t know what more evidence we need that it works, if you see a healthy child standing right there in front of you,” he said.

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Woman Shares Her Story About Seeking Abortion Reversal

By Valerie Prichett

ABC 27 News

Lancaster, PA: One Pennsylvania college student took it and changed her mind.

She didn’t want us to use her real name, but she did want us to share her journey. We will call her Samantha.

“I had an unplanned pregnancy and I was thinking about abortion. I took the abortion pill and I had regret immediately, so I went to Google and started searching if there was any way to undo what I did, and I came across a reversal number and I contacted the number,” she said.

Samantha called Hope Within, a community health center in Elizabethtown.

Hope Within offers free primary care services to those in need.

Doctor’s used progesterone, the hormone that sustains a pregnancy, to reverse the drugs that induce an abortion.

“If we can inject large doses of progesterone into a woman that can overcome that blocking effect RU 486 such it prevents the detachment of the embryo from the wall of the uterus,” explained Dr. Eric Hussar with Hope Within Community Health Center.

Dr. Hussar says a woman must act fast, getting progesterone within 24 hours of taking RU 486.

“In the experience of the abortion pill reversal program, nobody has been able to carry a pregnancy more than 72 hours after taken the pill if they haven’t received progesterone,” said Dr. Matthew Weitzel with South East Lancaster Health Services.

As for Samantha, after taking progesterone and receiving an ultrasound she found out she was having twins, boy and a girl, both now 1 year old and healthy.

“I’m very happy I made the choice I did to continue the pregnancy,” Samantha said.

Doctors Hussar and Weitzel say progesterone seems to be very safe for use in pregnancy and side effects are rare. They say over 50 percent of women treated through the program delivered healthy children.

Website: ABC 27 News

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