Colorado to Pay Pro-life Pregnancy Center $5.4 Million after Losing Bid to Ban Abortion Pill Reversal

Matt Lamb : Jan 9, 2026
LifeSiteNews.com

Pro-abortion, homosexual Gov. Jared Polis loses again in federal court. Now taxpayers will cough up more than $6 million to settle a lawsuit from a pro-life medical clinic that helps women.

[LifeSiteNews.com] Colorado taxpayers will pay $5.4 million to a pro-life medical clinic targeted by the state for offering the hormone progesterone to women to help them potentially stop an abortion pill from killing their baby. The state will pay out another $700,000 to settle a lawsuit from a licensed nurse practitioner. (Image: Pixabay)

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented Bella Health and Wellness, will be paid millions of dollars in attorneys' fees to resolve the lawsuit.
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"A federal court found that Colorado's attempt to ban abortion pill reversal violated the First Amendment," Becket Fund wrote in a news release. "A federal law now requires the state to pay attorneys' fees and court costs."

The clinic "offers progesterone to these women who seek help to keep their unborn children after taking the first abortion pill," which may stop the abortion process. This is often called "abortion pill reversal."

The process has some success—Becket Fund notes that 18 babies were born during the lawsuit thanks to the successful reversal of the abortion pill.

"At least 18 moms who received abortion pill reversal care at Bella just celebrated Christmas with babies born during this case," Rebekah Ricketts, senior counsel at Becket and an attorney for Bella Health and Wellness, stated in the news release. "All Coloradans should celebrate those little miracles and the brave medical team at Bella that helped their moms when no one else would."

Democrat Gov. Jared Polis signed into law SB23-190, allegedly to address the so-called "deceptive trade practice [of] pregnancy related service[s]" that specialize in life-affirming alternatives to abortion, LifeSiteNews previously reported.

Legal groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom, soon after filed successful lawsuits against the bill.

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ADF represented "licensed nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife Chelsea Mynyk" in her challenge to the law. As a result, the state will also pay $700,000 in attorneys' fees to the Christian religious liberty group.

"Government officials can't silence medical professionals and prevent them from saving lives," ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot stated in a news release... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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