More than 200 women banded together to advocate for access to abortion pill reversal in response to California officials targeting the practice.

In abortion pill reversal, a patient who no longer desires abortion takes the hormone progesterone to save the life of her child after she has taken the first chemical abortion pill. In recent years, abortion pill reversal awareness has been targeted in the states of California and Colorado.

In an open letter, 225 women who have been helped by the Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) expressed their gratitude for being able to access abortion pill reversal.

“The healthcare professionals who spoke with us, whether doctor, nurse, or staff, treated us with compassion and respect,” the letter read. “They provided information about a medical protocol that might help preserve our pregnancies.”

“We were free to accept or decline that care,” the letter continued. “We made our own choices.”

“We reached out because we wanted to know if there was any possibility of continuing our pregnancies after taking mifepristone,” the letter read. “We are grateful that someone answered.”

The women expressed disagreement with the idea that information about abortion pill reversal is harmful.

“Women facing difficult and time-sensitive decisions deserve access to information about all of their options,” the letter read.

The women were responding to allegations in a California lawsuit that abortion pill reversal aid was misleading, according to a press release by the pregnancy help center network Heartbeat International, which manages the APRN.

“More than 40 of those women are Californians, from the very state where Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking to silence Heartbeat International … and punish its speech about abortion pill reversal,” the press release read.

Abortion pill reversal is not always successful, though Heartbeat International says the success rate is 64%-68%.

“Some of us gave birth to children we cherish today. Others did not experience the outcome they hoped for,” the women wrote. “Yet regardless of the outcome, we are thankful that we were informed of an option and allowed to decide for ourselves.”

Hundreds of thousands of abortion pills are sent to pro-life states

A recent report found that since 2023 nearly 330,000 abortion pills were shipped to states with laws that protect unborn children.

These shipments came from mail-order abortionists who are protected by shield laws in states such as New York and California.

The report, by the Restoration of America Foundation, estimates that “out-of-state abortionists send nearly 15,000 chemical abortion pills per month into states with pro-life laws,” according to the report shared with EWTN News.

The report calls on the Trump administration to “act swiftly and decisively.”

“If pro-life states have no power to protect their women and babies from rogue abortionists thousands of miles away, the situation they find themselves in is not better than before the Dobbs decision — itʼs worse,” the report read.

U.S. Senate to consider expansion of Mexico City Policy

The U.S. Senate is considering an expansion of the Mexico City Policy, which requires federally-funded aid organizations to refrain from promoting or providing abortions in order to receive federal aid.

The bill, if passed, would prevent U.S. foreign assistance from being used to fund or promote abortion as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, as well as gender ideology.

“U.S. foreign assistance programs have been exploited as a loophole to promote far-left, radical ideology on the dime of American taxpayers for far too long,” said U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, who introduced the Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance Act.

Army captain sentenced for poisoning his pregnant girlfriend

An Army captain was sentenced to prison for poisoning his pregnant girlfriend with chemical abortion drugs.

Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing his unborn child, along with other charges including domestic violence.

Jones-Adams obtained the chemical abortion drugs from an online provider by using a fake name. The unborn baby, who was 13 weeks old, did not survive the forced abortion.

1 in 3 pregnancies end in abortion in England and Wales

The lives of nearly 1 in 3 unborn babies end in abortion, according to recent statistics from England and Wales.

In 2023, a rate of 32.1% of conceptions ended in abortion in England and Wales. Abortion has been on a steady increase there since 2015, according to the statistics from the England and Wales Office for National Statistics.

“The rise in abortions since the pandemic has been linked to the availability of at-home abortions with the ‘pills by post’ scheme,” according to a report by CARE, a London-based Christian organization that aims to bring truth and grace into politics. “This allows women to receive medication to terminate a pregnancy up to 10 weeks after a phone or online consultation with a medical professional.”

Delaware Catholics battle abortion, celebrate wins

Delaware Catholics are opposing an abortion amendment; meanwhile, the state has made a legal agreement not to target pregnancy centers.

The Delaware Catholic Advocacy Network urged Catholics to oppose a recently proposed abortion bill that would enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

Meanwhile, Delaware officials agreed to a court order banning them from enforcing a law against pregnancy centers, settling a lawsuit brought by the centers.

Only 1 Planned Parenthood clinic to remain in Iowa

Planned Parenthood will shrink to a single clinic in Iowa at the end of this month, the organization announced earlier this week.

Planned Parenthood North Central States officials cited “declining and unstable funding streams” as well as a recent Trump administration move to defund the organization through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program.