US anti-abortion activists claim that a medical abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol can be reversed

Anti-abortion activists are planning to target Irish women with an unproven treatment for “reversing” an abortion.

The HSE has said that there is “no such thing” as abortion reversal and that any woman who attempted such a process could have a miscarriage. It also said that a “healthy outcome” of the pregnancy could not be guaranteed in such circumstances.

The Times has seen training documents by Sidewalk Advocates for Life (SAFL), which has set up an Irish operation. They reveal that the American group promotes an unproven technique of “abortion reversal”, whereby it tries to convince women to undergo a hormone treatment after they have taken the first of two pills.

Since January women can access abortions through pills provided by a GP up to