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By Michael Gryboski, Editor Wednesday, January 07, 2026<\/span><\/a>The golden Capitol dome in Denver, Colorado <\/span> | Takako Phillips\/iStock<\/span><\/p>\n

Colorado has agreed to pay more than $6 million in legal fees to settle litigation against a state law barring pro-life groups from providing the abortion pill reversal treatment for women seeking to save their babies’ lives by stopping a chemically-induced miscarriage that has already been initiated.<\/p>\n

Bella Health and Wellness, a pro-life Catholic clinic based in Denver, sued Colorado over a law that prohibited it from counseling women not to complete an abortion pill regimen.<\/p>\n

The religious liberty law firm Becket, which helped represent Bella Health, announced Tuesday that Colorado agreed to pay $5.4 million in attorneys’ fees to settle the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least 18 moms who received abortion pill reversal care at Bella just celebrated Christmas with babies born during this case,\u201d said Rebekah Ricketts, senior counsel at Becket, in a statement provided to The Christian Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Coloradans should celebrate those little miracles and the brave medical team at Bella that helped their moms when no one else would,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chelsea Mynyk (L), licensed nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife, owner of Castle Rock Women’s Health, with a patient.<\/span> | Resonate Films<\/span><\/p>\n

Colorado also agreed on Tuesday to pay $700,000 in legal fees to settle a challenge by nurse practitioner Chelsea Mynyk, who joined the Bella Health lawsuit in 2024.<\/p>\n

Kevin Theriot, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented Mynyk, said in a statement released Tuesday that he was \u201cpleased\u201d with the settlement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany women regret their chemical abortions, and some choose to reverse the effects of the first abortion drug, which can save their baby\u2019s life,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Colorado\u2019s law wrongly attempted to deny women the freedom to make that choice. We\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

An abortion pill reversal treatment occurs when a pregnant woman undergoing a medication abortion (also known as chemical abortion) changes her mind and takes progesterone, a natural hormone, to counteract the effects of the first pill.<\/p>\n

Bella Health and Wellness is a Catholic healthcare clinic located in Englewood, Colorado. <\/span> | Screenshot\/Google Maps <\/span><\/p>\n

The treatment is controversial in certain circles, with pro-life groups insisting that it has saved thousands of lives while establishment groups, such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, argue that the evidence is still lacking.<\/p>\n

In April 2023, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that labeled any effort to provide or recommend abortion pill reversal as \u201cunprofessional conduct\u201d and \u201csubject to discipline in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law soon became the subject of a legal challenge, as Bella Health and Mynyk argued that the measure violated their constitutional rights and their sincerely held religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

In August 2025, United States District Judge Daniel Domenico for the District of Colorado issued a permanent injunction against enforcing the state law.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]hile the clinical efficacy of abortion pill reversal remains debatable, nobody has been injured by the treatment and a number of women have successfully given birth after receiving it,\u201d wrote Domenico.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Defendants have thus failed to show that they have a compelling interest in regulating this practice, and Plaintiffs\u2019 motion must therefore be granted to the extent it seeks a permanent injunction allowing them to continue offering the treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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