{"id":323253,"date":"2024-12-18T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323253"},"modified":"2024-12-17T21:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:53:05","slug":"jama-study-pregnancy-centers-abortion-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jama-study-pregnancy-centers-abortion-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMA study authors deceptively slam pregnancy centers for promoting ‘abortion pill reversal’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Abortion pill reversal,” the administration of the hormone progesterone to outcompete the progesterone-blocking effects of the abortion pill mifepristone, has come under attack by the abortion industry ever since its inception \u2014 and it shows no signs of abating. These attacks also go hand-in-hand with attacks on pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), both of which came together in a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.<\/p>\n

JAMA has a history<\/a> of attacking pregnancy centers for providing “abortion pill reversal.” JAMA is well-known<\/a> for publishing<\/a> studies<\/a> favorable<\/a> to the idea of abortion, the intentional killing of preborn human beings. In addition, the American Medical Association itself appears to be in lockstep<\/a> with the abortion industry and the promotion of abortion.<\/p>\n

A group of abortion activists created<\/a> a website \u2014 “ChoiceWatch<\/a>” \u2014 meant to serve as a database on PRCs, and claiming to give users the ability to find out “where these centers operate, the services they offer, and the strategies they employ to advertise their services.” (Ironically, it’s not as if these PRCs operate in secret; the pro-life organizations OptionLine<\/a> and Heartbeat International<\/a>, for example, offer search assistance for women to find PRCs in their local areas.)<\/p>\n

ChoiceWatch used its own database to analyze how many PRCs offer “abortion pill reversal,” and claimed that approximately 30% do<\/a>. \u201cThis transparency is essential for ensuring public health,\u201d Mark Dredze, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and co-creator of ChoiceWatch, told Cardinal and Pine<\/a>. The article overflows with pro-abortion bias, deriding PRCs as “fake clinics” that “shame and pressure women out of getting abortions and [] tell lies about the procedure, birth control, and sexual health.” It is evidently even more problematic that PRCs give women who regret their chemical abortions the option of potentially saving their preborn children.<\/p>\n

Misunderstanding… or misleading?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Davey Smith, director of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute at the University of California, San Diego claimed that “abortion pill reversal” could \u201cincrease the risk of serious complications like sepsis, especially in cases where it interferes with the completion of a medication abortion.”<\/p>\n

This is dishonest, and this claim shows either a misunderstanding of how the treatment works, or is a deliberate attempt to mislead women into thinking that it’s dangerous.<\/p>\n

OB\/GYN Dr. Christina Francis noted in a video<\/a> about “abortion pill reversal”:<\/p>\n

If a woman has taken the first medication [mifepristone], and then changes her mind before taking the second medication [misoprostol], then we can give her large doses of progesterone to try and displace the first medication from the receptors and to try and block the effects of any further action from that medication. And in doing so, then, we can lead to having a normal, successful pregnancy. And that happens about 70% of the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition, OB\/GYN Dr. Catherine Stark recalled<\/a> in the same video how a patient entered her office and broke down in tears, saying that she had taken the abortion pill and regretted it. “So I helped her. And we were able to get an ultrasound that day. She had a heartbeat. She still had a viable baby, and we saved that baby.”<\/p>\n

OB\/GYN Dr. Karyssa Trandem stated<\/a> in the very same video that she administered the progesterone treatment to a young woman who visited her clinic expressing regret, and after, “follow[ed] her throughout her first trimester, showing her baby growing healthily as a result of taking the progesterone.”<\/p>\n

In other words, physicians who administer “abortion pill reversal” treatment aren’t<\/strong> simply handing out pills and then abandoning their patients like those who administer the abortion pill<\/em>. Instead, there are ultrasounds and check-ups to ensure that the woman is not miscarrying her baby.<\/p>\n

Progesterone has been safely used… for decades<\/strong><\/p>\n

Progesterone has, for decades, been safely administered to women at higher risk of miscarriage<\/a>. A 2024 meta-analysis recently concluded<\/a>: “In women at increased risk of pregnancy loss, progestogens probably increase live births without increasing adverse maternal and neonatal events.”<\/p>\n