Heartbeat International, affiliated with more than 2,000 facilities, aims to convince people to continue their pregnancies
The organization behind an international network of anti-abortion facilities is misleading people with claims that abortions can be “reversed”, a lawsuit filed on Monday by Letitia James, the New York attorney general, alleges.
The organization, Heartbeat International, is affiliated with more than 2,000 facilities that aim to convince people to continue their pregnancies. In recent years, many such centers, which are often Christian and sometimes known as crisis pregnancy centers, have started to promote a controversial practice known as “abortion pill reversal”, which claims that people can halt a medication abortion midway through.
The first randomized, controlled clinical study to attempt to study this “reversal” protocol’s effectiveness came to an abrupt stop in 2019, after three participants landed in the hospital hemorrhaging blood. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the pre-eminent membership group for OB-GYNS, has said that claims about abortion reversal are “not based on science and do not meet clinical standards”.
Crisis pregnancy center councilors are literally the scum of the fucking earth.
Luckily some states/cities are putting laws in place to force these assholes to admit they aren’t actually medical facilities with signs on the front door.
And other states give them public money 🫠
That’s so disappointing and infuriating.
When I did some digging on those places I found they frequently work with private, Christian adoption agencies…who then legally can refuse to adopt babies out to non-Christian families, even refusing to adopt out to catholic and Jewish families, and obviously LGBTQ families and atheists. I can’t provide any links cuz I’m at work, but a quick search will pull up adoption discrimination and the link to crisis pregnancy centers. Shit pisses me off. Manipulate scared, often young women into giving birth then using them to fill up their churches. Disgusting.
Yes, it all fills me with rage as well.
The one here (Indiana, of course) has a huge office in a new building downtown and a giant custom converted RV (I have no idea what that’s for). They also worm their way into local schools.
Meanwhile, the Planned Parenthood closed down.
Also Indiana. We have a similar RV that frequently sets up in my town; it’s a mobile abortion-reversal clinic. They also do pregnancy/STD tests and ultrasounds.
n…necromancy?
They only works if it was alive to begin with.
Well it’s definitely alive, that’s not a terribly high bar (plants and sponges qualify, after all).
The ethics question is whether it’s a person yet (or should be treated like one)
Though even if it’s considered to be a full person one person cannot be compelled to give use of organs to another without their consent, even after death. Can’t even be compelled to do something with basically no risk to yourself like donating blood even if you’re a perfect match and objectively the reason another person requires a transfusion or whatever.
You actually think that a fetus isn’t alive?
On a cellular level, sure.
Take it out of the mother? Not so much, at least not for a while,
The first randomized, controlled clinical study to attempt to study this “reversal” protocol’s effectiveness came to an abrupt stop in 2019, after three participants landed in the hospital hemorrhaging blood.
The general horrificness of this aside. How do you recruit participants for a study like this? “Do you want to be pregnant but don’t mind having an abortion? Would you like an abortion but don’t mind if you actually get it reversed?”
I can’t find the original study, but according to this NPR article they were all scheduled for surgical abortions.
The abortion pill is a two pill process - the study was to find out if progesterone injections could reverse the effects of taking the first pill only.
So then abortion isn’t murder?
Can you reverse a murder?
Jesus Christ.
well, yes, I guess the reversal worked for him
“Put that thing back where it came from or so help me”
