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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”.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 72 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Crisis pregnancy center councilors are literally the scum of the fucking earth.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And other states give them public money 🫠

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Yes, it all fills me with rage as well.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe the RV is for a place to put pictures of fetuses.