{"id":241584,"date":"2021-03-14T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=241584"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:22:09","slug":"media-biased-disclaimer-obgyn-abortion-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-biased-disclaimer-obgyn-abortion-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Media puts biased ‘disclaimer’ on OB\/GYN’s abortion pill reversal op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Christina Francis, board chair of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) and a board-certified OB\/GYN, recently penned an op-ed for The Journal Gazette<\/a> discussing the safety and effectiveness of abortion pill reversal. Inexplicably, the publication included a false “disclaimer” with the article from the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), wrongly stated that abortion pill reversal is not supported by science.<\/p>\n

Dr. Francis’s op-ed was a response to a February op-ed written by the associate medical director of Planned Parenthood for Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK), which called abortion pill reversal unsafe and a “fictional concept.” Notably, no disclaimers were posted with PPINK’s article. In addition, Dr. Francis’s op-eds have been previously published in publications such as USA Today, and have never before been followed by disclaimers from abortion supporters.<\/p>\n

The ACOG disclaimer published by the Gazette read:<\/p>\n

Facts are important, especially when discussing the health of women and the American public. Claims regarding abortion \u201creversal\u201d treatment are not based on science and do not meet clinical standards. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) ranks its recommendations on the strength of the evidence, and does not support prescribing progesterone to stop a medical abortion.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is important to note that progesterone has been helping to protect women and their babies from miscarriage<\/a> for decades<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In her op-ed, Dr. Francis shared the story of a young woman who had taken mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen.\u00a0“My patient told me that the second she walked out of the clinic, she knew she’d made the wrong decision,” wrote Dr. Francis.<\/p>\n

“Desperate to know whether there was anything she could do to reverse what she’d started (despite having been told at the abortion clinic there wasn’t), she went home and Googled ‘Can I reverse my abortion?’ She stumbled upon the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, which then connected her to me. After speaking with her on the phone, we started the process the same day, and we were able to save my young patient’s son.”<\/p>\n

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