On November 11th, the Ravens Respect Life club invited Dr. John Worden to give a lecture on his work promoting the Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) hotline.
Before exploring his own work with APR, Worden dove into the history of the contraceptive pill, which goes back to 1960 when the Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) approved the first oral contraceptive pill. Worden remarks, “In the first few years, medical and religious authorities both struggled with this.”
The contraceptive pill gradually became more accepted over time, especially during the Sexual Revolution. The Catholic response to these efforts arrived in the form of a papal document from Pope Paul VI known as “On Human Life.”
This papal document served as the modern inspiration for Natural Family Planning (NFP) to help couples naturally regulate and follow their fertility without having to resort to contraceptive and abortive methods/devices.
Worden explained, “Several of these doctors who were trained by the environment of these methods [of Natural Family Planning] thought that maybe they could help women with respect to counteracting abortions.”
In 2012, physicians theorized that high doses of natural progesterone could displace the effects of mifepristone, the primary chemical used in abortion pills (which inhibits progesterone), and help women maintain their pregnancies. This medical discovery led to the rapid creation of the abortion pill reversal, which has helped numerous pregnancy resource centers and encouraged women to save their babies from the abortion pill.
Worden celebrates the continued success of the ABR hotline, stating “The ABR hotline and its affiliated physician practitioners and pregnancy resource centers have saved over 7,000 babies with abortion pill reversal.”
If you like to learn more about the efforts of Abortion Pill Reversal, you can find them at their website https://abortionpillreversal.com/ or contact them at 1-877-558-0333.
