California Tries to Force Women to Complete Abortions– www.lifenews.com

September 17 marked the final arguments in a California courtroom over the practice of offering abortion pill reversal (APR) to women seeking to save the lives of their unborn children from the feticidal drug mifepristone. We have become used to reading sentences like this, in which so-called champions of choice like the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) go the last mile to complete abortions women are desperate to avert. The policy is all the uglier because it would fine groups like Heartbeat International and Real Options millions of dollars for attempts to aid such women.

Attorneys for the Thomas More Society, who have fought the battle for life in these cases for three years now, summarized their arguments in their closing trial brief to the California court, saying:

“Abortion Pill Reversal is an accurate, truthful, and non-misleading way to describe the interventions at issue in this case. APR works through competitive inhibition, taking advantage of the fact that mifepristone binds reversibly to the progesterone receptors. It works to undo the effect of the abortion pill, which is a commonplace understanding of the word reverse. The FDA pharmacology review described the effects of supplemental progesterone as antagonizing mifepristone’s abortifacient activity, allowing normal pregnancy and delivery, and ‘reverse’ is ordinary language shorthand for that counteraction.”