Date:
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
By Dustin Siggins
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
For thousands of children every
year, the abortion drug RU486 signals the end of their life. But thanks to a littleknown
procedure, more than 100 babies have been able to overcome the effects of RU486 after their
mothers changed their minds about aborting them.
At a press conference last week, Priests for Life and the American Association of ProLife OBGYNs
praised the work of doctors that has saved 80 born babies and 51 babies still inutero.
Also in attendance were two women who changed their minds about aborting their children,
as well as the first doctor to reverse RU486's effects.
The RU486 abortion protocol, which has been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration, includes a total of three doctor visits over two weeks. Dr. Mary Davenport
told reporters at the press conference that in addition to significant risks to her physical
health, "the woman also has the guilt of knowing that she terminated her pregnancy."
The first doctor to reverse RU486, Dr. Matt Harrison, told conference attendees about how a
woman came to him in 2007 to ask if the process could be reversed.
"I need to step out and pray," Harrison told the woman. "Then I said a prayer and started
looking through books and thinking about how RU486 works."
Then it occurred to him: "It essentially just blocks the progesterone receptors and starves the
baby.”
Harrison said that he subsequently gave the woman progesterone, which saved the baby's life.
Today, that child has "no problems and no ill effects," Harrison said, and is "an excited little
cheerleader for her local football team and just a great little joy to be around. She's doing
wonderfully."
Andrea Minichini likewise shared how she researched RU486 after taking two abortion pills,
and was able to save her son Gabriel's life.
Priests for Life's founder, Father Frank Pavone, told LifeSiteNews.com that the fact that the
medical abortion process can be reversed has not received widespread media exposure.
"There has been an article published by physicians on the procedure in a medical journal,” he
said, covering the mainstream media's coverage of the lifesaving procedure. “As for further
exposure in secular media, that is what we are working on now."
"The abortion industry has not in any way supported this reversal procedure, to our
knowledge, despite the fact that it simply responds to the choice of the mother," Fr. Pavone
said.
Planned Parenthood and NARAL did not respond to multiple requests for comment about
whether the abortion leaders support the reversal process as part of its “prochoice” stance on
abortion.