Two months before the U.S. Supreme Court shot down an attempt to ban abortion medication, a San Diego County doctor who was a plaintiff in the case stepped onto a stage in Texas and warned that another civil war is coming — this time over an issue 'deeper than' slavery. 'This is life versus death, much more fundamental to our existence and to our relationship with our creator than being free or being a slave,' Dr.
' Medina has largely stayed out of the spotlight, distanced from the controversial movement she unknowingly helped ignite. But she represents both the reason antiabortion advocates are so enthusiastic about pill reversal — and the fear that it's generated among many medical professionals. Mifepristone was not designed to be taken by itself, and the use of repeated doses of progesterone remains largely unstudied.