State Rep. Ann Bollin, today co-sponsored a plan to support women who change their mind after taking a dose of Mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill.

The abortion pill reversal (APR) uses progesterone to reverse the effects of the abortion pill, but Bollin said patients are never informed of this option.

“By medical ethics standards, patients must be informed of all the options available to them,” Bollin said. “That’s not the standard practice in these cases and it has to change.”

According to the Abortion Pill Reversal Group, if the APR protocol is used, the chances of saving the pregnancy are 48 to 64 percent depending on gestational age and reversal protocol used.

“Hundreds of babies have been saved because mothers utilized the APR,” Bollin said. “We must give all women that chance.”

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