- Colorado has agreed to pay Bella Health and Wellness $5.4 million to cover attorneys’ fees and court costs.
- The agreement comes after the clinic’s 2023 lawsuit over a state law that banned its pro-life health care providers from offering abortion pill reversal services to women.
- The state also recently agreed to pay $700,000 in attorneys’ fees as part of a settlement with a pro-life nurse who later joined the suit.
Colorado recently agreed to pay a Catholic health care clinic $5.4 million to cover attorneys’ fees and court costs after the state targeted the clinic for providing women with abortion pill reversal services.
According to a Jan. 6 news release from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the nonprofit legal organization that represented Bella Health and Wellness, the clinic sued in 2023 when Colorado passed a law that banned health care providers from offering assistance and medical care to mothers who regretted taking the abortion pill. Health care facilities like Bella Health and Wellness provide progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, to women who have taken the first of two abortion pills and decide they would like to keep their unborn child. Progesterone is often able to protect the baby from being aborted and allows the mother to continue her pregnancy.
The agreement follows an August 2025 permanent injunction that secured the clinic’s ability to offer abortion pill reversals using progesterone. At that time, a federal court ruled that Colorado’s law violated the clinic’s First Amendment right to freedom of religion.
Rebekah Ricketts, senior counsel at Becket and an attorney for Bella Health and Wellness, highlighted the importance of the clinic’s challenge to the law, stating in the release, “At least 18 moms who received abortion pill reversal care at Bella just celebrated Christmas with babies born during this case.”
“All Coloradans should celebrate those little miracles and the brave medical team at Bella that helped their moms when no one else would,” she added.
As CatholicVote previously reported, pro-life Christian nurse Chelsea Mynyk joined the clinic’s lawsuit after the Colorado State Board of Nursing told her in 2024 that she was being investigated for possibly violating the Nurse Practice Act by providing abortion pill reversals. In December 2025, Colorado reached a settlement with Mynyk, agreeing to pay $700,000 in attorneys’ fees.
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