13 My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;
14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul; If you have found it, there is a prospect, And your hope will not be cut off.
15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not plunder his resting place;
16 For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.
Mackenna was pregnant, and made the decision to terminate her pregnancy, according to Faithwire, which relates that in a video she made for Alliance Defending Freeedom, she said: “My story — our story — actually starts in late December 2023, when I had found out that I was pregnant...And I just remember being flooded with an array of emotions, none of which, I’ll be honest, were happy, or joyful, or excited.” The article states:
After finding out she was pregnant, she ordered an abortion pill regimen online and had it shipped to her home. Despite internal hesitation, she took the first pill.
“Immediately, upon taking it, and in the days leading up, I knew that that was not the right decision for me,” Mackenna said. “I continued to convince myself that it was, that it was the right decision for me, my family.”
But she quickly realized taking the pill “was a major mistake.” She immediately did research and then reached out to the Abortion Pill Rescue Network for help getting access to abortion pill reversal and was provided with what she called “life-saving care.”
She recorded the video while holding her baby daughter, who would not have been born had it not been for the process of abortion pill reversal. Here's how it works, according to ADF:
“Mifepristone is taken first and is meant to kill the unborn child by blocking progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone needed to sustain pregnancy,” ADF writes. “Many women experience the same regret Mackenna experienced after taking mifepristone. There is a window of time between the first and second abortion drugs during which the effects of mifepristone may be reversed and the baby may be saved. APR is the process of trying to save these unborn children.”
Women like Mackenna who regret taking the first pill are then prescribed progesterone to try and offset the impact of mifepristone. ADF claims there’s research showing 64-68% of the time these pregnancies can be saved if medicines are administered at the right time.
But, there is a state official in New York who doesn't believe that APR works. The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, is one of them. In fact, as Faithwire notes:
James sued crisis pregnancy centers earlier this year for advertising abortion pill reversal, citing “false and misleading claims.” Heartbeat International, one of James’ targets, hit back with its own lawsuit and scored a preliminary injunction and protection to keep sharing information on abortion pill reversal.
Colorado is the first state to have passed a ban on APR, according to ADF. And, nurse practitioner Chelsea Mynyk, who helped Mackenna, has filed a lawsuit against the law; she had been investigated after a complaint had been filed. The Christian Post reports:
Mynyk argues that she feels "religiously compelled" to provide abortion pill reversal.
In her legal fight, Mynyk asserts that the Colorado law violates her First Amendment rights by restricting free speech and her Fourteenth Amendment rights by impeding due process and unlawfully limiting her ability to provide complete information and services to their patients.
Answers in Genesis provided a response to this set of circumstances, noting that the Colorado law had been challenged in court, and that plaintiff had received a temporary injunction preventing the law from being applied to that plaintiff, but not Chelsea, which is why she took court action. AiG states:
It seems hard to imagine that a state will allow for (really push for) abortion medicines but will not allow nurses and doctors to prescribe medicines that can undo the damage caused by them. Remember, we are talking about the life of a child made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26–27). But last year, Colorado passed a law explicitly banning the procedure of providing progesterone to patients who wanted to counteract RU-486.AiG also relates, "God commands us to stand for and care for the weak, the fatherless, and the widow." So we should always be about valuing and protecting life. As we enter January, which is celebrated as Sanctity of Human Life Month, we can consider how our Creator God can instill a desire to preserve life and perhaps direct us to a place where we can serve.
What a wicked culture that desires the death of the innocent (Psalm 94:21). They are really mandating child sacrifice. But fortunately, God has raised up teams like ADF and individuals like Chelsea Mynyk to stand firm on their (and our) religious freedoms and convictions.
Chemical abortion, or mail-order abortion is a popular way to terminate the lives of unborn babies. And, thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, it is a highly unregulated practice. The availability and use of these pills has increased, to the extent that it has been estimated that over half of abortion now are performed in a home without a medical professional. This puts women at risk, in addition, of course, to the life of the unborn baby.
We serve a powerful Creator, who communicates the truth about life. Yet, you have an enemy, who is bent on destruction, who keeps orchestrating ways to kill unborn children. He is the one who inspires a devaluation of life, the one who turns human beings against one another seemingly without a second thought. We must pray and stand against this hideous mindset. And, we can thank the God who has given us life to view that life as a gift, to turn our lives over to Christ, and walk in His grace.
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