Arizona doctors won't have to say abortions can be reversed

[Omaha Steve]

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]

1. A sock in the eye to the religious right

[Warpy]

2. Eventually the ignorant Christians trying to practice medicine

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]

3. WTF? How could anybody with a single functioning brain cell believe

an abortion could be reversed? Just stick it back in there?

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. A doctor said he reversed the effect of

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]

4. We are so immature and childish, us Americans. Whether it is a breast at a football game

or our desire to get back at Women for not sleeping with us in high school

[Fred Sanders]

5. The courts will strike down Maria law, which exists, and Sharia law, if it did exist. Fascists hate courts

[petronius]

6. Maybe I'm missing something, but why would anti-choice assholes want

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]

7. The drug requires 2 does. Idiots wanted doctors to LIE just in case

the woman changed her mind after the 1st dose.

[jmowreader]

9. This is going to sound silly, but...

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]

10. sciencey stuff trumps dumb. n/t

[malthaussen]

11. It still needs to be fixed.

Having a law like that on the books is a bad idea.

-- Mal