Colorado residents must cough up $5.4 million for wrongful government attack on pro-life clinic

Pay up Coloradans!

That’s the result of a federal court ruling that that state’s officials wrongfully attacked a pro-life health care organization.

It’s not the first time that state’s residents have had to cough up cash for the leftist agendas of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis and the Democrat majority in the state legislature: Earlier penalties came because of the state’s demands that Christian business operators violate their faith and promote the LGBT lifestyle choices.

The most recent penalty for residents amounts to $5.4 million, according to officials at Becket, which represented Bella Health and Wellness after the state claimed, wildly, that it had the right to censor statements about the abortion pill reversal process.

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

The abortion reversal process simply provides help for woman who have taken the first half of the chemical abortion process. That first chemical is mifepristone, which causes the unborn to be deprived of progesterone. The reversal process provides that to the mother and child.

Across America, thousands of women have successfully reversed the chemical abortion process through the treatment.

Founded by Catholic mother-and-daughter nurse practitioners, Dede Chism and Abby Sinnett, Bella provides life-affirming healthcare to men, women, and children.

“Like healthcare clinics across the nation, Bella offers progesterone—a naturally occurring hormone that is essential to the maintenance of a healthy pregnancy—to women at risk of miscarriage. Studies show that progesterone can help women who have taken the first abortion pill but decide they want to continue their pregnancies. Consistent with its religious mission to uphold the dignity of every life, Bella offers progesterone to these women who seek help to keep their unborn children after taking the first abortion pill,” explained Becket.

Then in 2023, Colorado’s leftist-dominated legislature tried to deliver a specific benefit for their friends in the abortion industry, passing a law that targets pro-life clinics like Bella Health and Wellness by making it unprofessional conduct to help women who are seeking to reverse the effects of the first abortion pill.

Bella asked a federal court to block the law and protect its ability to help pregnant women in need of life-saving care. In October 2023, Judge Daniel Domenico temporarily stopped Colorado’s abortion pill reversal ban. A permanent ruling soon followed, that the state violated the First Amendment.

Nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife Chelsea Mynyk also intervened in the lawsuit, represented by the ADF, and obtained parallel protection to perform abortion pill reversal.

The ADF said, in a separate announcement, Colorado officials “agreed to pay $700,000 in attorneys’ fees” to settle the Mynyk case.

“Government officials can’t silence medical professionals and prevent them from saving lives,” said ADF lawyer Kevin Theriot. “Many women regret their chemical abortions, and some choose to reverse the effects of the first abortion drug, which can save their baby’s life. But Colorado’s law wrongly attempted to deny women the freedom to make that choice. We’re pleased Chelsea and the other pro-life plaintiffs in this suit are allowed to get back to their life-saving work of helping women and children.”

The organization explained the injunction addressed only the issue of Bella Health and Wellness so the Mynyk case was settled in alignment with that ruling.

It has been reported that Domenico’s order blocked the state’s agenda, being imposed through its “Deceptive Trade Practice Pregnancy-related Service” law that banned medical professionals from offering abortion pill reversal treatments.

The state falsely claimed that was “unprofessional conduct.”

Domenico wrote, “The Defendants have thus failed to show that they have a compelling interest in regulating this practice, and Plaintiffs’ motion must therefore be granted to the extent it seeks a permanent injunction allowing them to continue offering the treatment.”

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