United States District Judge Daniel Domenico issued a landmark pro-choice ruling in Bella Health and Wellness v. Weiser, permanently blocking — for one clinic — Colorado’s desire to force abortions on mothers who don’t want them.

This decision strikes a blow to the state’s far-left leadership, which has hypocritically restricted medical freedom under the guise of protecting choice. Senate Bill 23-190, the first of its type in the country, targeted crisis pregnancy clinics like Bella Health by prohibiting prescriptions for progesterone — a safe, time-tested hormone — to reverse the effects of mifepristone, a common abortion inducing pharmaceutical.

Domenico’s ruling ensures that Bella Health may continue offering compassionate, life-affirming care to women who ask for it. It exposes the contradictions of a governor and legislators who champion “choice” while forcing abortions on those who choose otherwise.

Though the ruling applies only to Bella Health, other providers will certainly ask the court for equal protection. The state will likely appeal Domenico’s ruling. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court may intervene — again — as it has in so many civil rights abuses committed by state politicians with the earned stature of strung-out, petulant juvenile delinquents.

Boulder native Domenico, Colorado’s former solicitor general, ruled that SB 190 violates the Free Exercise Clause by targeting Bella Health’s sincerely held Catholic beliefs. The law prohibits progesterone for abortion pill reversal while permitting it for “gender-affirming care” and other unproven, off-label applications.

“Plaintiffs’ use of progesterone is not being regulated neutrally — it is being singled out,” Domenico wrote.

Despite SB 190, Bella Health has prescribed progesterone since Domenico issued an injunction on this ill-conceived law in October of 2023.

“Eleven babies have been born since the filing of this case after their mothers received the medication abortion reversal treatment,” Domenico wrote. “Multiple patients who received abortion pill reversal treatment at Bella are maintaining healthy pregnancies and are expected to give birth later this year.”

Colorado’s one-party rulers passed SB 190 in a state that funds abortions at any stage for any reason. They passed it after decriminalizing all deadly, schedule one illicit drugs. They imposed this law in a state that upholds the “right to try” any experimental drug that might save an adult’s life. Yet, a pregnant mother’s “right to try” was criminalized.

For decades, these boldly pro-abortion ideologues have insisted that pregnancy termination is a sacred choice between a woman and her doctor. Yet, when a woman reflects on the gravity of an abortion and changes her mind, the state controls her.

No matter the mother’s desire, the child must die for “the immediate preservation of public peace, health, or safety,” as stated by the bill’s emergency clause.

Progesterone, used for years to prevent miscarriages, is no experimental drug. It is a lifeline that has led Bella Health’s providers, nurse practitioners Dede Chism and Abby Sinnett, to maintain lasting bonds with mothers of children who would otherwise be dead. Chism and Sinnett are known to sustainably provide mothers and their rescued babies with food, shelter, clothing, education, health care and more.

Until Friday, Colorado — like the Chinese Communist Party — forced abortions on women regardless of their will. This ruling ensures Bella Health — and other providers who exert their rights — will offer women the gift of free will and reproductive freedom.