The Left Loves 'Choice'—Until a Mother Chooses Life
Women deserve to know their abortions could be reversible.
For generations, the abortion industry has cloaked itself in the euphemism of choice.
Those who support the premeditated killing of innocents in the womb often balk when accurately described as being "pro-abortion." No, no, no—they're pro-choice.
Yet how quickly their support for freedom of choice disappears when the option at hand is abortion pill reversal.
Studies indicate that the little-known treatment, if taken swiftly enough, can successfully counter the effects of the abortion drug mifepristone roughly 64-68 percent of the time, saving the life of an unborn child and its mother from a potential lifetime of regret. The process involves flooding the mother's body with progesterone, the pregnancy hormone that mifepristone blocks. For the protocol to work, the mother must initiate the treatment before taking the second drug in the abortion pill regimen, the contraction-inducing misoprostol. By Heartbeat International's count, at least 7,000 lives have been saved using this method.
Now, one might expect "pro-choice" leftists to welcome a treatment that offers women a chance to choose again. Instead, they've done everything in their power to suppress the information that a second chance even exists.
New York's Democratic Attorney General Letitia James, for example, sued 11 crisis pregnancy centers in her state—along with Heartbeat International—just for notifying women about abortion pill reversal. Without even a hint of irony, she claimed keeping women in the dark about the possibility of reversing their unwanted abortions was somehow a move to "protect pregnant people's right to make safe, well-informed decisions about their health."
James also parroted a common leftist talking point that "the only clinical trial conducted to evaluate" abortion pill reversal's efficacy "had to be halted due to concerns about patient safety." The truth, however, is that the study in question ended due to concerns over the safety of mifepristone, not progesterone.
In that study, the researchers planned to enroll 40 patients into two groups. Every participant was to take mifepristone, and then one group would take high-dose oral progesterone and the other a placebo. Enrollment halted after just 12 patients because three of them, including two in the placebo group, experienced severe hemorrhaging requiring hospitalization.
The researchers attributed the life-threatening side effects to the fact that they did not administer misoprostol after the mifepristone. "Patients in early pregnancy who use only mifepristone may be at high risk of significant hemorrhage," they concluded.
Notably, the team that conducted the study included a Planned Parenthood employee and a consultant for Danco Laboratories, the distributor of Mifeprex, or name-brand mifepristone. Neither entity has backed recent calls for a review of mifepristone's safety.
The safety of progesterone, on the other hand, is backed by its decades of use to support healthy pregnancies, prevent miscarriage and lower the risk of premature birth.
In December, James' lawsuit was dealt a death blow by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in a separate case that counseling on abortion pill reversal is likely constitutionally protected speech. Still, New York is not the only state to have attacked the practice. A similar battle continues to unfold in California, and Colorado lawmakers banned abortion pill reversal outright in 2023. The Colorado law has lost its teeth, though, amid a federal judge's injunction and a settlement.
“She was God’s gifts to me… He gave me that second chance at being her mom.”
— Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) July 26, 2025
Mackenna Greene told the emotional story of how abortion pill reversal saved her baby girl at ADF Summit 2025. pic.twitter.com/8Qd36mhsYp
Colorado mom Mackenna Greene is just one of many women who credit abortion pill reversal with saving their children's lives. In Greene's view, it was divine intervention that led her to seek out the treatment that ultimately saved her baby girl.
"She was God's gift to me," Greene said last July. "He gave me that second chance at being her mom and being able to look this little girl in the eye and say, 'I'm sorry I didn't fight for you at first, but I'm going to fight for you for the rest of your life.'"
If the pro-abortion Left had its way, Greene's daughter—and thousands of other children—would be dead. Thankfully, some states are taking action to ensure women are fully informed that their abortions may be reversible.
More than a dozen states have passed informed consent laws requiring that chemical abortion seekers receive some level of notification about abortion pill reversal. Many of those laws are either tied up in litigation or are in states with near-total abortion bans. Still, other such laws in Arizona, Nebraska and Utah remain in effect.
West Virginia lawmakers, to their credit, appear ready to take their support for abortion pill reversal a step further. On Feb. 6, two Republican state senators introduced legislation that would cover the costs of the treatment under the state's Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support program.
Other states, regardless of their abortion stance, would do well to follow suit. Informed consent is an imperative for any medical decision. And if the pro-abortion crowd really wants to empower women, they should support providing them with the full spectrum of choices available to them, not just those that end in death.
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