A medical miracle or just an emotional scheme – PB/TK
This Doctor Says He Can “Reverse” Abortions – By Nina Liss- Schultz / June 9 2017
So-called crisis pregnancy centers are well known for trying to convince women not to end their pregnancies. But George Delgado, a physician with a crisis pregnancy center called Culture of Life Family Services clinic in San Diego, California, takes the practice a step further: He claims to have developed a technique to reverse the effects of a pill-induced abortion. “Have you taken the first dose of the ABORTION PILL…Do you regret your decision and wish you could reverse the effects of the abortion pill?” reads the website of the project Delgado started. “We are waiting to help you!” The promotional language suggests that, with some strong and timely doses of the hormone progesterone, women can stop the abortion and carry the pregnancy to term: “IT MAY NOT BE TOO LATE, IF YOU CALL QUICKLY.”
The only problem, according to several doctors I spoke to, is that there is scant medical evidence that abortion pill reversal works.
The only problem, according to several doctors I spoke to, is that there is scant medical evidence that the procedure works. Based only on anecdotal accounts from pro-life doctors and a small case study, the abortion pill reversal protocol is experimental at best, they say. But that hasn’t stopped conservative state legislatures from trying to push through laws requiring doctors to tell their patients that, should they regret their abortions, they might be able to undo them.
A medication abortion typically involves two drugs. The first, mifepristone, which is administered in a doctor’s office, ends the pregnancy, and the second, misoprostol, which the woman takes at home, expels it from her body. Since 2000, when the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone sales, medication abortions have soared in popularity for women less than three months into their pregnancy. In 2014, abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol accounted for about a third of all abortions in the United States. It’s also a target of anti-abortion advocates, who call it dangerous (major complications result in less than 0.4 percent of all cases) and say it contributes to an “abortion on demand” culture.
The abortion pill reversal protocol was born in 2009, when Delgado got a call about a woman in Texas who changed her mind after taking mifepristone. Then the medical director of Culture of Life Family Services, Delgado reasoned that progesterone, a hormone given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage, might help. He found a Texas physician who agreed to give the woman progesterone injections. According to Delgado, it worked, and the woman carried the pregnancy to term.
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