Since 2023, a Colorado law has banned medical providers and organizations in the state from offering women abortion pill reversal, which reverses the effects of dangerous chemical abortion drugs if women change their minds after taking them.

Now a federal judge has ruled that the law was unconstitutional and a violation of religious freedom. Colorado has been ordered to pay $6.1 million to two medical providers that the state tried to prevent from offering clients abortion pill reversal.

This settlement is welcome news. Now, Catholic health clinic Bella Health and Wellness, as well as a Colorado nurse practitioner, can operate free from Colorado’s pro-abortion interference and will be able to make up for the excess litigation fees they’ve been forced to spend over the years.

Colorado’s efforts to prevent women from using medically sound and effective means of reversing dangerous chemical abortions, though thwarted, are chilling. It’s one thing that pro-abortion advocates push for more and more extreme abortion laws. That’s to be expected from those perverting the true meaning of women’s “choice.” Yet Colorado lawmakers’ efforts to restrict abortion pill reversal (efforts mirrored by their friends in other states) reveal how little they truly care about women’s choice.

Of course, pro-abortion advocates would tell you that abortion pill reversal is junk science and doesn’t work. In reality, it’s merely extra progesterone to reverse the effects of the first drug in the two-drug regimen of chemical abortion, mifepristone, which starves the unborn baby of nutrients to induce his or her death. Progesterone mitigates the effects of this drug, and with close monitoring, women who use abortion pill reversal have gone on to have healthy babies.

Conversely, the serious adverse events associated with mifepristone, which pro-abortion advocates would have you believe is safe and effective, are so widespread that they’ve merited an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration that could result in nationwide restrictions. Indeed, recent reports have found that mifepristone has 22 times more serious adverse events than the FDA reports. Moreover, the Biden administration’s choice to remove an in-person doctor’s requirement before acquiring mifepristone and to allow the drugs to be shipped by mail has left many women to suffer the consequences alone and in horrific pain in their bathrooms.

Removing these requirements puts women in danger because they may not know how far along they are, or whether they have an ectopic pregnancy, without an in-person doctor’s visit. It has also enabled horrific abuse; already, across the nation, abusers and partners are secretly poisoning women with chemical abortion drugs. These women have had to deal with horrible pain, the loss of their unborn babies, and the trauma of betrayal or abuse—all because of a drug that pro-abortion advocates say is safe and empowering, and which allegedly doesn’t need basic regulations.

When it comes to the abortion pill, advocates have demonstrated they don’t really care about women’s health and choice. Not only did the FDA endanger women with loosened regulations on the pill and the ability for anyone anywhere to acquire it by mail, but Colorado lawmakers also spent years actively fighting to prevent women from seeking care to reverse the effects of mifepristone if they changed their mind or, even worse, if they were drugged and didn’t choose abortion in the first place.

Thankfully, a court ruling has corrected this madness by striking Colorado’s unconstitutional ban on abortion pill reversal. Yet these pro-abortion, anti-women attacks will persist at women and children’s expense without extreme pro-life vigilance.