One for us: "Federal judge blocks Indiana 'abortion reversal' law"

[lindysalsagal]

https://apnews.com/article/michael-pence-indiana-business-abortion-laws-0e7e556052263284410c45e0af4a8c10?fbclid=IwAR2mt_-Jc941OVsucimw9Wdzs2W88k6oq5df1A8DZDPxrkYw7q9Feok3Lhw

(It took me a few readings to understand this: Indiana had passed a law insisting that doctors tell women asking for the chemical abortion pills that there was an alternative 2nd pill to the normal 2nd pill. But that pill is not verified by the normal medical studies, and so could interfere with the abortion. It also adds confusion to an already emotional process.)

By TOM DAVIES yesterday

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked an Indiana law that would require doctors to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a disputed treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process.

The ruling came just before the so-called abortion reversal law adopted by Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature was to take effect Thursday. The temporary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon in Indianapolis puts the law on hold while the lawsuit challenging it makes its way through court.

Hanlon ruled that the abortion-rights groups had a “reasonable likelihood” of proving that the requirement would violate free speech rights of abortion providers. He also found that the state had not proven the effectiveness of the reversal process, which involves taking a different medication rather than the second of the two drugs involved in the procedure.

“While the State may require abortion providers to give a woman seeking an abortion certain types of information as part of the informed-consent process, that information must, at a minimum, be truthful and not misleading,” wrote Hanlon, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.

[jimfields33]

1. Trump judge!

[AngryOldDem]

2. This was about the most disgusting piece of legislation I've seen in awhile.

And that is saying something, considering that it’s Indiana.

There were MANY OB/GYNs and other experts who testified repeatedly in committee hearings that these reversal drugs were unproven and possibly dangerous, and that being mandated to basically lie to patients is an ethical and moral violation. They were given short shrift to nonexperts (often religious) who provided only anecdotal evidence. One even brought in her baby — like a show pony — who was supposedly “saved”, and of course all the Rs gushed and cooed over it.

If Indiana taxpayers knew just how much of their money goes to defending indefensible, grandstanding laws like this every single year…I for one am outraged.