{"id":300507,"date":"2023-10-23T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300507"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:35:52","slug":"catholic-nurses-request-exemption-abortion-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-nurses-request-exemption-abortion-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules to extend temporary block on Colorado’s abortion pill reversal ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update 10\/23\/23<\/strong>: A federal judge has temporarily blocked<\/a> Colorado’s ban on abortion pill reversal following a request from Catholic nurses who run the non-profit organization Bella Health and Wellness. On Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico temporarily stopped Colorado\u2019s law from taking effect after previously placing the law on hold in April. The last injunction placed on the law was set to expire on Monday.<\/p>\n

Domenico said in an opinion on Saturday<\/a> that the Colorado law prohibiting the treatment likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cColorado is trying to make outlaws of doctors and nurses providing life-saving and compassionate care to women they serve,\u201d said Rebekah Ricketts, counsel at Becket, which is representing the nurses. \u201cThis ruling ensures that pregnant women across the state will receive the care they deserve and won\u2019t be forced to have abortions against their will.\u201d<\/p>\n

10\/23\/23<\/strong>: Catholic nurses who founded the non-profit health organization Bella Health and Wellness in Colorado have asked<\/a> a judge that they be allowed to continue administering abortion pill reversal (APR) \u2014 the administration of the hormone progesterone \u2014 to women while their legal case against Colorado Senate Bill 190, the law prohibiting the use of APR, continues.<\/p>\n

Dede Chisma and Abby Sinnett are a mother-daughter team that created<\/a> Bella Health in order to ultimately improve the culture by “helping women be whole” along with helping marriages and families. In October of 2021, following a lawsuit by Bella Health against a Colorado law<\/a> that prohibited the use of abortion pill reversal, a federal judge ruled that Bella Health was exempt from the law because it “burden[ed] their own First Amendment rights.”<\/p>\n

The law aimed to prohibit medical professionals from providing APR, which consists of administering progesterone pills or injections after a woman takes the first drug of the two-drug abortion pill regimen, or risk facing $20,000 in fines per violation as well as the potential loss of their medical license. Thanks to Trump-appointed, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico’s injunction, Bella was able to continue to provide APR as the lawsuit proceeded \u2014 but other medical providers who also provided APR in Colorado could not.<\/p>\n