{"id":66450,"date":"2015-07-13T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=66450"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:32:18","slug":"ben-carson-blasts-abortion-says-soon-endorse-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-carson-blasts-abortion-says-soon-endorse-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson blasts abortion, but says it&#8217;s too soon to endorse pill reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ben_Carson_MD-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carson Scholars Fund\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ben_Carson_MD-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ben_Carson_MD-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ben_Carson_MD.jpg 1418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>Over the weekend, retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson broke ranks with his fellow pro-lifers by <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2015\/07\/10\/3679324\/ben-carson-abortion-pill-reversal\/\">telling the liberal blog ThinkProgress<\/a> that he believes it is premature to support abortion pill reversal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally speaking,\u201d Carson said, \u201cthe scientific method requires accumulating data, accumulating evidence and making sure that it\u2019s statistically significant.\u201d He did not suggest the concept of the practice was wrong or rule out supporting it after more studies had been done.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/arizona-abortion-pill-reversal-law-delayed-pending-legal-challenge\/\">previously reported<\/a> on multiple cases of successful abortion pill reversal, a technique in which a woman who has changed her mind after taking the first pill of the RU-486 regimen, instead of taking the second pill, undergoes progesterone therapy to reverse its effects and save her child\u2019s life. Most recent was <a href=\"\/news\/httpliveactionnews-orgthis-is-gabriel-his-mom-aborted-himthen-changed-her-mind-then-something-incredible-happened\/\">the story<\/a> of Andrea Minichini, whose son Gabriel was successfully saved by a New Jersey doctor.<\/p>\n<p>78 babies have been born since the technique\u2019s first use in 2007, with another 49 successfully gestating after reversal. Abortion pill reversal pioneer Dr. George Delgado has also <a href=\"\/news\/pioneering-doctor-reveals-the-science-behind-abortion-reversals-and-the-babies-saved\/\">released videos<\/a> explaining the science of the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Dr. Carson has been a consistent pro-life advocate, having <a href=\"\/news\/ben-carson-reflecting-slavery-made-pro-life\/\">compared abortion to slavery and calling it a &#8220;heathen&#8221; practice<\/a>. At Friday\u2019s annual National Right to Life Conference, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/carson-baby-killers-capitalize-on-peoples-lack-of-knowledge\/article\/2568035\">condemned<\/a> \u201cthe baby killers\u201d for \u201ccapitaliz[ing] on people&#8217;s lack of knowledge\u201d of embryology and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/07\/10\/ben-carson-government-doesnt-get-to-decide-if-we-are-a-pro-life-nation-we-do\/\">declared<\/a>, \u201cThere is nothing that you have that is more valuable than your life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson broke ranks with his fellow pro-lifers by telling the liberal blog ThinkProgress that he believes it is premature to support abortion pill reversal. \u201cGenerally speaking,\u201d Carson said, \u201cthe scientific method requires accumulating data, accumulating evidence and making sure that it\u2019s statistically significant.\u201d He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":59133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[10627,3473],"tags":[3581,19,3793,3797,131,4128,31,615],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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