By Dave Andrusko
Last month, we reposted a Pregnancy Help News story about a terrible decision by YouTube.
The social media giant had suspended the Abortion Pill Reversal‘s You Tube channel account “for ‘repeated or severe violations of [the] Community Guidelines,’” explained Danielle White, J.D. ”Four videos were posted to the account. The ‘offending’ videos included one webinar explaining APR in scientific and medical terms. The remaining three told the stories of women who chose life for their babies using the APR protocol.”
But good news this week from Katie Franklin. “Following a temporary suspension for allegedly ‘harmful or dangerous content,’ Abortion Pill Reversal’s YouTube channel is once again up and running after YouTube admitted the suspension was a mistake.”
Franklin quoted Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, who said, “We commend YouTube for acknowledging their mistake and promptly resolving it.” He added, “No woman should ever be censored for sharing her testimony simply because she chose life—even at the last minute. Nor should vital life-saving information be censored from the public.”
According to Franklin’s story, “Citing its policies on ‘harmful or dangerous content,’ YouTube’s original suspension notice stated that it ‘doesn’t allow content that encourages or promotes violent or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death.’”
Presumably when challenged, the absurdity of including these APR videos under these criteria sunk in, and YouTube backtracked.
For those who may not have kept up on Abortion Pill Reversal (APR), a study published in April in Issues in Law and Medicine provided even more evidence that chemical abortions can be reversed if the second of two drugs is not taken.
Authored by prominent abortion pill reversal developer George Delgado and several other national and international medical researchers, the study affirmed (as Franklin explains)
that the Abortion Pill Reversal protocol is both safe and effective for women who change their mind after beginning a chemical abortion.
The study, which followed 754 women who wanted to stop their in-progress chemical abortion, reported a 68 percent success rate in reversing the effects of mifepristone, the first pill in the two-part chemical abortion process.
The APR protocol involves administering progesterone to counteract the first abortion pill. Progesterone is FDA-approved and has been used to prevent miscarriage since the 1950s. Today, the APR protocol is backed by a network of 350 medical providers and a 24/7 hotline (1-877-558-0333), now operated by Heartbeat International through OptionLine. Since 2007, over 500 women have used the APR protocol to save their babies from abortion.
As Dr. Delgado told the Washington Post, given its demonstrated safety, convincing evidence that it works, and tangible proof that this is something many women clearly want, he feels that rather than wait for years of more testing, “the science is good enough that… we should go with it.”