Fox News host pushes risky abortion 'reversal' pill that is 'not supported by science'
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy pushed women who are having abortions to seek a "reversal" of the process even though the procedure is not supported by scientific studies.
After a Mother's Day segment on faith-based pregnancy centers on Sunday, Campos-Duffy said she met one family who had successfully stopped a chemical abortion before the pregnancy was terminated.
"We met dads who had — the man you saw right there. He'd gone into an abortion clinic with his wife. They took the pill, the chemical abortion, because now 50% of all abortions are chemical abortions," Campos-Duffy said. "They said once you take that pill, you've got to take that second one and don't listen to anybody who tells you otherwise. Well, they didn't listen. They googled and they found a reversal pill."
"They got the reversal pill, and they're holding that baby perfect child, and they reverse the abortion so that they're doing abortion pill reversals. They're helping women," she added.
Experts, however, have said there is no science to back up the claims that abortions can be safely reversed.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists warned against the procedure with a statement titled, "Medication Abortion ‘Reversal’ Is Not Supported by Science."
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Sara Finger, executive director for the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, told PBS that abortion reversals were not real.
“It is not a medical procedure,” Finger insisted in 2023. “These fake health care centers are advertising this chance to reverse a medication abortion, which you cannot do.”
In a chemical abortion, a pregnant person takes two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. Some anti-abortion advocates believe the hormone progesterone can stop an abortion if it is administered before misoprostol is taken.
But a 2019 study on abortion reversals at the University of California-Davis had to be shut down after three of the 12 women were taken to the hospital for vaginal bleeding.