Kentucky's controversial abortion 'reversal' law takes effect Thursday
A new Kentucky law takes effect Thursday that requires doctors to tell patients that some abortions can be reversed, a claim disputed by the medical establishment, even as a similar law in another state faces a legal challenge from two national organizations.
Senate Bill 50, which passed in Kentucky's 2019 legislative session, requires doctors to counsel patients seeking to terminate an early-stage pregnancy with medication that the process can be reversed by a different medication.
Supporters testified at a hearing in February that anti-abortion doctors around the country have found that administering progesterone to the patient can reverse the abortion if given in time.
Critics, including the American Medical Association, denounced such claims as unproven and not based on medical evidence. The AMA, in a press statement Tuesday, announced it had joined a federal lawsuit challenging a similar law in North Dakota.
North Dakota's law forces physicians "to mislead and misinform their patients with messages that contradict reality and science," AMA President Dr. Patrice Harris said in a press statement. "The AMA will always defend science and open conversations about all health care options available to patients."
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