On May 20, the Heritage Foundation announced its decision to name AAPLOG as one of its 2024 Innovation Prize winners. We will be granted $100,000 to help fund the creation of an online course about abortion pill reversal (APR) to be offered to medical professionals and hospital systems. The Heritage Foundation’s Innovation Prizes were established in 2022 “to recognize and advance innovative projects, strategies, and policy solutions of organizations that are seeking to ensure the future of American self-governance.” Through this program, the Heritage Foundation awards a total of $1 million annually to “results-oriented non-profits for projects involving research, litigation, education, outreach, or communications.”
We are incredibly honored to have Heritage’s support in completing this important project. APR, or natural progesterone therapy to prevent pregnancy loss after the consumption of the abortion drug mifepristone, has been used for over a decade to treat women who began an abortion drug regimen but regret doing so and wish to save their preborn child’s life. With the rise of abortion drugs (which are currently used to perform 63% of induced abortions), as well as self-managed abortions, in which women undergo chemical abortions with little to no medical guidance or counseling, AAPLOG foresees that the need for this lifesaving therapy will skyrocket and hopes to equip medical professionals to offer it to their patients – regardless of their position on abortion.
In her acceptance speech for this award, AAPLOG CEO Dr. Christina Francis stated,
Despite expanding the horizons of choice for women, APR has been the object of unscientific, partisan attacks. To combat this, we at AAPLOG, with the help of the Heritage Innovation Prize, are developing an online course that hospitals can use to educate medical professionals about the scientific evidence that supports offering patients APR. We are so grateful for the Heritage Foundation’s support and look forward to continuing to provide women and our preborn patients with excellent, cutting-edge care.
-Dr. Christina Francis
We are grateful for supporters like you, without whom this project would not be possible. We still need further support to ensure that this APR course and another online course that’s in the works, on treating pregnancy complications in pro-life states, are fully funded. If you’d like to contribute to this project, go to www.aaplog.org/donate.
