Thank you for taking the time to show your support for a woman's right to know about the Abortion Pill Reversal. 

To date, over 1,000 mothers have successfully rescued their babies with the life-saving Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) protocol. 

Applied up to 72 hours after a woman takes the abortion pill, our Abortion Pill Reversal gives a woman one last hope to choose life in a procedure that now accounts for nearly 50 percent of abortions throughout the U.S. 

Thankfully Heartbeat has friends, like you, who know the difference between the truth and a lie and who are not fooled by slippery language and half-truths. And for your gift to support the mission of Heartbeat International, I remain grateful. But not only me-the 30,000+ women contacting our Option Line Call Center each month (not to mention that OptionLine.org has about double those contacts) are deeply thankful to have an alternative to abortion—adoption, maternity home options, abortion pill reversal, and nurturing care and professional services—all offered free of charge. 

Though over 1,000 mothers have actually reversed their own chemical abortion and rescued their babies through Abortion Pill Reversal—and despite a growing amount of scientific evidence and agreement from abortion advocates that it is a sound medical treatment—many abortion extremists oppose Abortion Pill Reversal on ideological grounds. 

Abortion Pill Reversal Network, now combined with the increasing reach of our Option Line, empowers women to choose life, and every mother deserves the right to protect her own child, no matter what choices she’s made in the past. Heartbeat is deeply honored to steward the Abortion Pill Reversal Network into its next season of saving lives by putting choice back into a mother’s hands. 

Join us in this great work! You can reverse an abortion and give hope for life by giving a gift today.

You can change the outcome for real women and men you know. You can help change the attitudes and values of our culture. You can help make abortion unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations by what you say and do! 

Thank you for taking the time to show your support for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. At the appropriate time, we will send this to Judge Barrett and cc the Senators.

In the interim, there is no doubt that we are living through a pivotal time in our nation. Heartbeat International provides care and support to communities worldwide through a network of life-affirming pregnancy help with more than 2,800 affiliated locations is more than 60 countries. Through our work, we move to accomplish our vision of making abortion unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations. 

If you agree with this vision, please make a donation today so that we can continue to advance a culture of life!

Unborn Justice - Barbados

Unborn Justice is a registered life-affirming charity operating in Barbados. Unborn Justice was founded by three young people – Kyle Martindale, Shavonne Grosvenor, and Kamille Martindale – out of a passion to provide women with an alternative to abortion. In January 2014, these three young people sat down together to determine what they could do to see their passion fulfilled. They left the meeting with a plan. It wasn’t until eight months later, though, and God’s divine intervention that they met two young ladies who would need the services of Unborn Justice. With nothing more than a willingness to serve and lots of faith, the ministry of Unborn Justice began.

In May 2017, we opened a Pregnancy Help Centre aimed at providing support to women and their partners faced with crisis pregnancies.

Vision
Unborn Justice’s vision is to be a source of hope and help for women and their partners faced with difficult pregnancy decisions.

Mission Statement
Unborn Justice’s mission is to provide help to women and their partners with crisis pregnancies through empowerment, education and tangible assistance and to provide support for post-abortive women and men.

Client Testimony
“Unborn Justice has guided me in preparing to birth my baby and transitioning into motherhood. I sought their assistance as an 18-year-old student, unemployed, and clueless about the challenges of pregnancy and parenting. Since gaining knowledge through insightful sessions on pregnancy, parenting and self-development; I am a progressing mother of a 6-month-old son. The support given by other clients, volunteers, and Directors are uplifting, spiritually, and emotionally. I'm glad to have met such amazing persons while taking part in this beneficial program. I commend Unborn Justice for the encouraging words, education, and fun given to me.” – Earn While You Learn Graduate

While still a 17-year-old high school student, Rebekah became pregnant with her first child. Determined not to become a stereotypical teenage mother, she managed to graduate early, get accepted into Sacramento State University and chose life, and parenting, for her first-born.  

During her first year of college, however, Rebekah realized she was in an unhealthy and potentially dangerous relationship. 

“I was about halfway through my freshman year of college and my relationship was physically and verbally abusive, and my young son was seeing it unfold. I knew I needed to leave,” Rebekah said. “But, right as I did, I found out I was pregnant again.”

This news was the culmination of Rebekah’s fears.“I was living with my parents,” Rebekah said. “My dad had always said, we`ve done a lot for you with your first pregnancy, so don`t ever let there be a second under my roof. Otherwise, I will kick you out.”

For the sake of her son, Eli, Rebekah began to consider her options. In her mind, there was only one—abortion. 

“I believed that having another baby would hurt my son’s life. I’d be losing my family’s support,” Rebekah said. “There goes our home, finishing college, and all of our financial, emotional, and practical support.” Though she was a Christian, “it was mind over matter—that there was no other way out and that God would just have to forgive me; after all, my heavenly father was forgiving, and my earthly father was not.”

After searching online, Rebekah learned about chemical/medication abortion and visited a clinic in Sacramento, CA. Abortion via pills is increasingly common and marketed as safe, convenient, less expensive, and easier to hide. 

“I was about six weeks pregnant and determined to start the chemical abortion that day,” Rebekah said. “I’m on the table and the tech comes in. I’d had a baby before and my ob-gyn showed me the ultrasound. This time, however, I waited for her to flip the screen. She never did. It was so strange to me that she wouldn’t let me see the monitor!” 

Rebekah caught a glimpse of the ultrasound print-out and asked if she could keep it, but was informed she would have to write a letter to the clinic’s director and pay a $35 fee. After becoming increasingly frustrated, she visited a Planned Parenthood facility in Sacramento. 

At this appointment, Planned Parenthood staff told Rebekah that although she was now seven weeks pregnant, they weren’t seeing a heartbeat and didn’t know whether it was a viable pregnancy. Because they were unable to draw blood, Rebekah was forced to return a week later and her abortion was, again, put on hold. 

The day was March 13, 2013. She walked into her final abortion appointment, and by this time, she was nearly eight weeks pregnant. 

“I’m holding the RU486 abortion pill in a cup and we’re talking about how simple it will be. I kept thinking, chemical abortions are supposed to be less invasive and less painful. My concern was that it would be easy to hide since I was living with my parents.” The clinic assured her it would be.

Deciding she had no other option, Rebekah took the first abortion pill and was sent on her way. “The clinic worker explained that the first pill would end my pregnancy. I was told the second pills were to be taken the next day, at home and over the toilet, and they would just expel my pregnancy.” “Looking back, I regret not asking how this all worked and not advocating for myself and my unborn baby more, but fear consumed me.” “I wish I had known that that first pill deprived my baby of progesterone, thus ending his life and that the second pills were used to induce labor in full-term pregnant women.”

It was a decision she instantly regretted. 

“I got into my car and thought, ‘Oh Lord, what did I just do?’ I started thinking about my son at home that I adored. I started thinking about the baby I was carrying and what that pill was doing to the baby. I started crying and praying,” Rebekah said. “It also hit me that the next day, March 14, the day I was to finish the abortion, was Eli`s first birthday. It would forever be a day I brought into this world and took another one out.”

While still sitting in the parking lot of Planned Parenthood, Rebekah googled options for reversing the abortion pill. After a seemingly fruitless search, she stumbled across AbortionPillReversal.com. 

On the site was a number, 1-877-558-0333, for women having second thoughts about taking the abortion pill. Although she felt ashamed to speak to anyone pro-life, Rebekah summoned the courage to dial the number. 

“A nurse explained to me that a new reversal-protocol had been recently released, which called for progesterone injections being put back into your body. She then told me I still had a chance of saving the baby.” 

Rebekah was referred to a doctor two hours away who was willing to give the injections a try.

“The doctor was hopeful, but it wasn’t 100 percent,” Rebekah said. “He immediately started progesterone until I hit about 13 or 14 weeks.”

Meanwhile, Rebekah’s family eventually found out and offered support she never imagined she`d receive. Her father told her, “when I threatened to kick you out, I was hoping it would scare you into not getting pregnant again. I never thought it would scare you into aborting my grandchild.” Through this experience, her mother also revealed to her that she had been forced into abortion as a teenager and that she wished she had talked to her about it when she was younger.  

Meanwhile, Rebekah was receiving multiple phone calls from Planned Parenthood wondering why she had not returned to her follow-up appointment to ensure the abortion had been completed. 

Eventually, she returned Planned Parenthood’s call to inform them of her decision to keep her child. She was told not only was her attempt to save her child likely impossible, but that if the baby lived, he would likely have severe fetal anomalies and she would put her own life at risk in the process.

“It wasn’t like I owed them any money and yet they were so angry,” Rebekah said. “I don’t know if they were so misinformed or if they were just lying.” 

Seven months later, Rebekah gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy named Zechariah, which means “the Lord remembers” a name she thinks is perfect for the little boy who was saved mid-abortion. He is now seven years old, healthy, and very smart. She also stayed in school and graduated from William Jessup University in 2017. Soon after, she married her husband, Kramer Hagan, and added two more children, Lydia and Jonah, to their family. Rebekah now works for Heartbeat International, where she helps women in similar situations and shares her story at events across the nation.

“Having a baby doesn’t ruin your life, it just changes it,” Rebekah said. “I’ve met so many women who regret their abortions but never met a woman who regretted having her child. Abortion is so permanent. It’s forever, and It’s going to change your life.” She went on to express, “I never imagined my life being as normal and amazing as it is now. All of this was waiting on my ‘yes’ to choosing life and ‘yes’ to following God`s plan. I am so grateful for the second chance at ‘choice’ that abortion pill reversal gave me.”

Heartbeat International’s Babies Go to Congress campaign may be one of the most powerful Pro-Life events on Capitol Hill. Just imagine your lawmakers meeting with women who chose life at our pregnancy centers! Working with our moms and the pregnancy centers, we are able to communicate with various congressional offices from both sides of the aisle. After all, who can turn away smiling mothers, with happy babies in hand, who share their stories of the love and support they found at their local pregnancy help center? 

One by one these moms will share their stories of how their local pregnancy help organization helped them through a difficult time in their life. Some with a pregnancy test, some with housing, some with ultrasound, and some with mentorship programs... each story is different but highlights the fact that once each woman entered the center, they continued the relationship with the pregnancy help organization.

Pregnancy help centers are great for America. We know this. Women know this. These centers provided resources and support when no one else did.

Meet our 2024 Babies Go to Congress moms and their babies:

View the news coverage for our 2023 Babies Go to Congress event below: 

Additional articles can be found in Townhall, the Daily Signal, CBN, and CNS News, as well as coverage in our very own Pregnancy Help News.

With your support, Heartbeat International will be able to continue sending mothers and babies to Washington, D.C. every year to make a stand for life. Will you join us?

Many of you followed along as our moms and babies made their way through the halls of Congress proclaiming the life-saving, life-changing work of pregnancy help organizations. 

Thanks to your generous support, we have been able to take more than 180 moms and babies to D.C. to nearly 400 Congressional office visits since our first trip in 2009! Every one of these moms and their babies is living proof that pregnancy centers are great for America. 

At 17 going on 18, the last thing you expect to happen to you is pregnancy. 

You see it on TV and think, “That’s never gonna be me,” or hear of a peer becoming pregnant and say, “Glad it’s not me.” 

Then it is you. 

You take the test and it’s the only test you’re hoping to fail, except you pass. So, you take another and another and another until you find yourself at the pregnancy center, Amanda’s pregnancy center (PHC of Artesia, NM) and you’re wondering what to do next. 

When I first met with Amanda, I was tired because I hadn’t slept since taking the first pregnancy test. I was scared because I was only 17 and had yet to tell a single soul, anxious because a million thoughts were running through my mind. And Amanda listened to every one of those thoughts and fears and worries. 

I didn’t want a baby; it was about to be my senior year of high school and I wanted to go to college and get started on my life first. Until I realized it wasn’t about just my life anymore. Through the help at the pregnancy center I learned my baby’s life was just as important as mine, and I learned the choice I made for my son was the most important choice I would ever make. 

I was scared, but the center helped me be confidently scared. 

I began attending their parenting classes. Yes, almost all of the women in the class had their husbands sitting next to them and yes, I was the youngest mother in the room. However, with each class I attended, I learned more and more about how I could actually take care of the little baby whose life depended on mine. 

I was scared, but I became excited. They were teaching us everything from parenting to the formation of the baby. I was learning nearly everything about being my baby’s mother and learning everything he was going through inside of me. 

The classes at the pregnancy center made me feel comfortable with having my baby and also helped me feel confident in the choices I made for my baby and my body. From the glucose test to the epidural, everything was my choice. I learned how to change a diaper, how to swaddle my baby, and how to properly breastfeed. I began feeling as if I could actually be a confident mother. 

Then the day came where my precious son was in my arms and it was at that moment that I found the definition and meaning of love. It was then I realized how amazing life was and how amazing it was to give life to him. 

Learning about my body, my child’s body, and the parenting process helped me become confident in being a mother. Then just six weeks after giving birth to my son, I was able to experience the whole process again with the pregnancy of my daughter, except this time I did not hesitate about my choice of choosing life.