Optimization Tool for Abortion Pill Reversal
Policies and detailed instructions for engaging patients who regret taking the first abortion pill and would like to continue their pregnancies.
Purpose
This Pregnancy Sustaining Progesterone Therapy (PSPT) linear service model is intended to show exactly how existing Policies and Procedures play out in the context of serving women who have begun a medical abortion and wish to continue a healthy pregnancy instead.
Context
This manual is designed as a concurrent service platform with the Optimization Tool© (OT) Streamlined Linear Service Model (LSM). Medical pregnancy centers operating under other paradigms are free to implement this PSPT service platform, however the context of an OT Streamlined LSM has been assumed in the development of this manual.
Rationale
The trend toward medical abortions is increasing in the United States. The Pregnancy Resource center (PRC) is uniquely suited to address this trend by reaching women who have second thoughts with a progesterone therapy regimen to sustain pregnancy. Pregnancy Sustaining Progesterone Therapy has been pioneered by Dr. George Delgato, who published Progesterone Use to Reverse the Effects of Mifepristone with Dr. Mary L Davenport in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. This treatment opens up the possibility to reach another 20-30% of abortion-minded women.