Colorado:

A federal judge in the United States has temporarily overturned Colorado's law banning abortion pill reversal treatments, allowing a Catholic healthcare facility and other similar healthcare providers to continue the same.

On Saturday the U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico, issued Bella Health & Wellness a preliminary injunction against the state's restriction on the treatment that can undo the effects of a chemical abortion. The judge said that the Colorado statute outlawing the so-called pharmaceutical abortion reversal procedure probably goes against the provision of religious freedom in the US Constitution.

With the judge's order the law banning abortion pill reversal treatments is on hold until the lawsuit against it proceeds.

"Bella Health considers it a religious obligation to provide treatment for pregnant mothers and to protect unborn life if the mother seeks to stop or reverse an abortion," Judge Domenico wrote in his ruling.

This is the second time the judge blocked the law, with the first coming a few days after the lawsuit was filed. However, it was lifted after the state agreed to delay executing the statute, while the medical, nursing and pharmacy boards prepared guidelines for the implementation.

The Colorado law banned various Catholic healthcare providers from giving progesterone, a natural hormone to women who underwent the first procedure of medicated abortion but wish to keep their unborn child.

Soon after the law, SB 23-190 came into effect in April this year, Bella Health sued it stating religious concerns. They were represented by Becket Law, a non-profit legal group. The healthcare group was also joined by its employees Denise Chism, Abby Sennett and Kathleen Sander. Welcoming the ruling the plaintiffs said, "Some of these women have had abortion pills forced on them, and others change their minds. We are relieved and overjoyed to continue helping the many women who come to our clinic seeking clinic."

Medicated abortions commence after the pregnant mother consumes mifepristone drug which blocks the functioning of progesterone that is needed for the sustaining of the fetus. However, in any case, if the mother wishes to keep the baby before further drug consumption the pregnancy can be continued by taking high doses of progesterone, according to various pro-life doctors.