{"id":289437,"date":"2023-04-19T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=289437"},"modified":"2024-07-31T00:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T05:28:35","slug":"federal-judge-colorado-clinic-abortion-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-judge-colorado-clinic-abortion-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules Colorado clinic can continue offering ‘abortion pill reversal’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the filing of a lawsuit last week against Colorado’s law banning the use of ‘abortion pill reversal’, a federal judge has ruled<\/a> that a pro-life healthcare clinic is temporarily exempt from the law.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico said that the law, S.B. 190<\/a> or \u201cProhibiting Deceptive Practices at Anti-Abortion Centers,” signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Friday as part of pro-abortion law package, “burdens their own First Amendment rights.”<\/p>\n

Bella Health and Wellness, a Catholic-founded nonprofit clinic that offers ‘abortion pill reversal’ for women who have taken the first pill of the abortion pill regimen, mifepristone, had filed the lawsuit on Friday \u2014 the same day the governor signed the law into effect. The clinic has a main campus in Englewood along with centers in Denver and in Lafayette, with a total of 18 healthcare providers who serve more than 20,000 patients.<\/p>\n

The law prohibits medical professionals from providing ‘abortion pill reversal’, which consists of administering progesterone pills or injections, or risk facing $20,000 in fines per violation as well as the potential loss of their medical license. Thanks to Domenico’s injunction, Bella can continue to provide ‘abortion pill reversal’ as the lawsuit proceeds \u2014 but other medical providers who offer the service in Colorado cannot.<\/p>\n

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