Pressured into a chemical abortion, she found help at a pregnancy center

In 2022, when Jessica Williams was going through what she now calls “one of the hardest seasons of my life” in the midst of a divorce from her husband, she took the abortion pill after learning she was pregnant by another man.

Williams took the first pill in the abortion pill regimen, mifepristone, after her husband demanded that she do so. Immediately confronted by the fact that her preborn child was dying, Williams turned to a pregnancy resource center for help.

Key Takeaways:

• During a recent press call, Jessica Williams described being coerced into taking mifepristone, the first drug in the chemical abortion regimen.

• Before taking the second drug, misoprostol, she reached out to a local pregnancy resource center for help.

• The PRC assisted her with the 'abortion pill reversal' protocol, which she says saved her little girl's life.

• The PRC also provided her material and spiritual support as she continued her pregnancy.

• A recent report shows that PRCs in the U.S. provided a combined $452 million in total medical care, support and education services, and material goods to clients in 2024.

The Details:

A baby saved by 'abortion pill reversal'

During a recent press call hosted by The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) to discuss the group's new report on pregnancy centers, Williams shared how she was able to save her baby using 'abortion pill reversal (APR)' she was able to access with help from First Choice Pregnancy Services.

During the call, Williams, who is a nurse, related how overwhelming fear and pressure from her husband led her to order abortion pills online without medical assistance — even without an ultrasound.

"In my moments of fear, confusion, and pressure from my husband, I ordered the abortion pills online. No doctor, no ultrasound, no medical oversight,” Williams recalled.

Williams was nine weeks pregnant when she took mifepristone. Her husband watched her to ensure that she ingested the pill. He had allegedly asked Williams to abort the other man’s baby out of a desire to reconcile his marriage to Williams.

After taking the pill, Williams began “spiraling,” she recalled during the press call. With her medical background, she was aware of the fact that the mifepristone was starving her baby of progesterone, a hormone that sustains pregnancy.

Williams imagined the kind of horrific death her baby would have if she took the second drug.

"I realized that if my baby was still alive, taking the second pill, the misoprostol, would cause me to push out my living baby, who would experience its last breaths and heartbeat outside of the womb in the toilet,” Williams said.

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Williams realized she couldn’t carry out her baby’s execution. “I couldn’t do it,” she recounted during the call.

After deciding she wouldn’t finish the chemical abortion, Williams began praying, and searching for help undoing the effects of the mifepristone.

Williams found First Choice Pregnancy Services, a Las Vegas pregnancy center, through a Google search. The center provided Williams with APR, which she says saved her baby’s life. But the center even went beyond this, providing “compassion that carried me throughout my entire pregnancy,” Williams related.

Compassionate material and spiritual support

Williams described all the material and spiritual support she received from the pregnancy resource center.

“Their support didn't end with the reversal — it extended far beyond that moment. They provided diapers, material support, emotional and spiritual support groups, parenting resources, community connections, and just so much practical help in general,” said Williams.

She said staff at First Choice Pregnancy Services greeted her gently and without judgment, providing her with a safe space. "They provided a safe, calm space for me, emotionally and spiritually…They gave me information and education without pushing me in any direction."

Perhaps most importantly, she found compassion at the pregnancy resource center.

"A woman there connected with me, related to my story, and understood the pressure and fear I had been under," Williams said.

The individualized attention and medical care Williams received at the center contrasts starkly with her experience of buying abortion pills online after simply filling out an online application and a survey, without speaking to anyone providing the abortion drugs.

Today, Williams’ daughter, Kaylee, is three years old and thriving. Williams remains in contact with the First Choice Pregnancy Services staff who helped her save Kaylee’s life.

"My daughter is happy, healthy and thriving because of organizations like First Choice that believe women need and deserve real help, real solutions and real hope," Williams said.

Zoom Out:

CLI’s 2025 National Pregnancy Center Report, titled, "Pregnancy Centers: Rising to the Occasion with Unwavering Care," showed remarkable increases in pro-life pregnancy centers' support for women in 2024. It analyzed national survey data from pregnancy centers in all 50 states and found that the 2,775 centers in the U.S. provided a combined $452 million in total medical care, support and education services, and material goods in 2024.

The report shows that the Client Satisfaction metric for pregnancy resources centers is 98% (up from 97.4% in 2022).

The Bottom Line:

As Williams’ story and the stories of thousands of other women demonstrate, women trust pregnancy centers to care for them and their babies.