{"id":215188,"date":"2019-12-11T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215188"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:24:58","slug":"medical-expert-abortion-pill-reversal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/medical-expert-abortion-pill-reversal-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical expert says halted abortion pill reversal trial underscores abortion pill’s dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>)\u00a0Pro-abortion researchers would rather misinform women about the danger of the abortion pill than safeguard them from its risks, a scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) says, and their terminated study of Abortion Pill Reversal only further proves the “serious life-threatening risks” of taking the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of focusing on the facts that the abortion pill is dangerous, the attempt here is to mislead the public into believing that any attempt to reverse the abortion pill and delay killing the baby could be potentially more dangerous to the mother,” CLI\u00a0Senior Fellow and Director of Life Sciences\u00a0Dr. Tara Sander Lee said.<\/p>\n

Researchers from\u00a0the University of California, Davis stopped a study of Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) in July, media reports have said, after three of 12 women enrolled in the study experienced severe vaginal bleeding and needed ambulance transport to the hospital. The collective coverage is fueling pro-abortion claims that APR is flawed and unsupported by science.<\/p>\n

However, “their study did show that a [fetal] heartbeat was detected at the first follow-up visit in 80 percent of women who attempted to reverse the abortion pill,”\u00a0Sander Lee said.<\/p>\n

The news reports further say the study results also indicate that APR could cause harm, but CLI said in\u00a0a statement<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>that\u00a0it’s a known fact that\u00a0the abortion drug can cause severe bleeding.<\/p>\n

The results of the trial were published<\/a> last Thursday in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.<\/p>\n

The women in the UC Davis study were given mifepristone, the first of two pills in the chemical abortion process.<\/p>\n

The chemical mifepristone blocks the effects of progesterone, the natural hormone in a pregnant mother’s body necessary for her pregnancy to thrive.\u00a0In blocking the progesterone, the abortion drug causes the uterine lining to break down and the placenta to begin to fail, in effect starving the baby of oxygen and nutrients.<\/p>\n

To complete the chemical abortion, the second chemical, misoprostol, is taken one to two days later,\u00a0causing the mother to deliver\u00a0her deceased\u00a0baby.<\/p>\n