Friday, April 3, 2015
New Arizona Law Would Require Providers to Tell Patients About Unproven "Abortion Reversal" Process
U.S. News & World Report: Arizona Abortion Law Pushes Boundaries of What Providers Must Tell Patients, by Tierney Sneed:
An unprecedented abortion law signed by Arizona's governor this week would require providers to inform patients that a drug treatment to end pregnancy may be reversed midway through – a mandate pro-abortion rights activists are denouncing as the latest effort by a state to employ questionable science in a politically motivated effort to discourage women from undergoing the procedure. . . .
By and large, the medical community has lined up against the Arizona law.
“Claims of medication abortion reversal are not supported by the body of scientific evidence,” the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said. . . .
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2015/04/new-arizona-law-would-require-providers-to-tell-patients-about-unproven-abortion-reversal-process-.html