Progesterone use to reverse the effects of mifepristone.

Objective: To present a series of cases demonstrating successful reversal of mifepristone effects in women who chose to reverse the medical abortion process.

Case Reports: Four of 6 women who took mifepristone were able to carry their pregnancies to term after receiving intramuscular progesterone 200 mg.

Discussion: Mifepristone has been available in the US since 2000.

Right of Conscience for Health-Care Providers.

Health-care providers have been challenged by changes in medical practice to include abortion, euthanasia, and controversial fertility technologies. These procedures go beyond saving lives, healing disease, and alleviating pain, the traditional purposes of medicine. The foundational principles of Western medical ethics, as characterized by the Hippocratic Oath, have been weakened or even rejected.