Mackenna Greene was 25 years old and had just started a new position at work late last year when she learned she was pregnant. Unmarried and already m

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2024-11-26 20:30:06

Mackenna Greene was 25 years old and had just started a new position at work late last year when she learned she was pregnant. Unmarried and already mother to a toddler, the Colorado Springs, Colo., resident was ready to jump-start her career, and another baby just wasn’t in the picture.

Searching online, Greene found a website that shipped abortion pills to her within two days. She took the first pill in the chemical abortion regimen at home without ever having to talk to a medical representative.

For nearly 24 hours, Greene wrestled with her decision. Finally, she went back to Google, found the Abortion Pill Rescue Network hotline, and called, desperately hoping for a way to stop the abortion drug from taking effect.

The hotline representative put her in touch with Chelsea Mynyk, a licensed nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife who runs a women’s health clinic in Castle Rock. Mynyk quickly prescribed abortion reversal pills to the young mother. The next day, an ultrasound showed Greene’s baby was still alive.

But now Mynyk, the nurse practitioner who helped save Greene’s baby, is fighting in court to continue providing abortion pill reversal without the fear of losing her license. While the hormone used in abortion pill reversal, progesterone, is legal to prescribe, Colorado effectively bans its use to stop an abortion.