EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Group Asks Trump Admin To Intervene As Blue States Target Abortion Pill Reversal

A major pro-life group is calling on Trump administration officials to step in and protect access to progesterone, used to reverse the abortion pill, as New York and California target the drug.

40 Days For Life wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and other Trump officials asking them to acknowledge the safety of progesterone.

“The increasing efficacy of the use of progesterone to reverse the abortion pill has resulted in concerted legal action by radical pro-abortion states like California, New York and Colorado targeting pro-life organizations and health care providers serving the women seeking [abortion pill reversal],” 40 Days For Life wrote in their letter, which was provided to The Daily Wire.

“Ironically, they are removing women’s ‘choice’ and limiting options to what the government decides is best for women and their babies,” the group wrote.

Progesterone, a hormone women produce naturally, has an important role in sustaining pregnancy and can reverse the effects of mifepristone, the popular abortion pill. Mifepristone causes the uterus to contract and expel its contents, while progesterone works to stop contractions and keep the uterine lining intact.

“We urge you to implement federal regulation and law that preserve[s] the right of health care professionals to provide progesterone to reverse the effects of the abortion pill, for those women who so choose, without fear or threat of frivolous over-bearing litigation by rogue state and local politicians and lawyers,” 40 Days For Life told Trump officials.

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In New York, Attorney General Letitia James launched investigations and lawsuits trying to use consumer protection laws to crack down on progesterone.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit accusing pregnancy centers of “false and misleading advertising” around progesterone.

Both states targeted Heartbeat International, a pro-life group that connects women with progesterone who take the abortion pill and then change their mind.

Shawn Carney, co-founder and CEO of 40 Days For Life, said California is essentially claiming progesterone “doesn’t work, it’s bad medicine, it’s witchcraft.”

“What’s so beautiful about this stupid lawsuit that he filed is that we just line up a bunch of kids and say, you know, it’s documented. These women had a chemical abortion. These women then sought abortion pill reversal. And here’s little Tommy,” Carney told The Daily Wire.

“The pro-life side will definitely win,” he said. “My hope and prayer is that this is something other states look at and decide we’re not going into crazy land with California. We’re not suing people.”

Carney also said California banned his group’s signs that read, “Ask me about abortion pill reversal,” but the group is “completely ignoring their stupid law and hope they sue us.”

With more than a million volunteers, 40 Days For Life says it is the world’s largest grassroots pro-life movement. The group organizes 40 days of fasting and prayer outside abortion clinics around the world every year.

An analysis released in April found that more than one in 10 women experienced a “serious adverse event” after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023. This can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.

That is about 22 times higher than what the FDA listed on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA cited clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.

Meanwhile, more than one in 20 women need a second abortion attempt after the abortion pill fails, another analysis of insurance claim data released this week showed.

A few months before Roe v. Wade was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in person from a health care provider, allowing women to get them online through the mail.

Carney said mifepristone “just needs to be removed from the market in general.”

“We have basically this government policy that sends one in 10 women to the ER that is not based on medicine or safety for women or any of that, but is based on politics,” he said.

Last month, HHS head Kennedy told lawmakers he had requested that the FDA do a “complete review” of the abortion pill in the wake of the new data, calling it “alarming.”

Carney also noted that unlike a surgical abortion, women who take the abortion pill at home often see the remains of their unborn babies and are left traumatized.

“I think we’ve seen the usage of the abortion pills in America peak. I think they’re at their height, I think we’re going to start seeing them go down because they have a horrible word-of-mouth,” Carney said.