Arizona doctors won't have to say abortions can be reversed
Source: AP
PHOENIX (AP) Arizona's attorney general won't enforce a disputed section of a new law requiring abortion providers to tell women they can reverse drug-induced abortions until the matter can be sorted in court.
The decision made public Tuesday comes as the state prepares to defend itself in a lawsuit filed by abortion providers.
Critics have said there's no science that shows drug-induced abortions can be reversed, and abortion providers argue it's unconstitutional to require doctors to say something that goes against their medical judgment.
The law is the latest anti-abortion measures passed by Arizona's Republican-led Legislature in recent years.
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)Warpy
(111,327 posts)are going to have to be voted down by even Republicans who realize the religious right is losing members, has lost any credibility, and will eventually either tear the party apart or go back to being an apolitical fringe group.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,810 posts)an abortion could be reversed? Just stick it back in there?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)the morning after pill (Plan B) with large doses of progesterone. But that's only one method and no one knows the effect on the fetus if it doesn't work.
randys1
(16,286 posts)or our desire to get back at Women for not sleeping with us in high school
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)petronius
(26,603 posts)to tell women they're reversible in the first place? Wouldn't that almost encourage abortion in a way, as in "it's OK if you change your mind, we can reverse it later"?
Is it just that anti-choicers writing legislation are idiots? (OK, obviously yes). Or are they trying to confuse people by propagating nonsense? Piss of doctors by requiring them to spew nonsense? Create a bogus tool for prosecuting doctors who decline to spew the nonsense? I don't get it...
riversedge
(70,276 posts)the woman changed her mind after the 1st dose.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)If a woman was forced to undergo the invasive ultrasound...the long lecture on the "alternatives" to abortion...the "we can reverse the effects of the first pill" bullshit speech...the waiting period...and the two or three trips to the clinic before the procedure could be done, wouldn't that just strengthen her resolve to go through with it?
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)malthaussen
(17,215 posts)Having a law like that on the books is a bad idea.
-- Mal