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According to a Law awaiting the Gov.s signature. And they cannot purchase a health plan through the ACA, if it has abortion coverage.
Well why not? Women here can also be pregnant before conception.
Bill forces providers to say they can reverse drug-induced abortions, and also bars women from buying healthcare that includes abortion coverage
Arizona lawmakers approved legislation that requires abortion providers to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion.
Advocates on both sides of the issue said it’s the first time such a reversal requirement has passed in the US, though Arkansas also is considering similar legislation. Critics say there’s no science to back up the requirement.
The Senate passed the proposal Wednesday on an 18-11 vote. It now heads to Republican governor Doug Ducey, who has pledged to defend the right to life but hasn’t weighed in on this specific legislation.
The law would also bar women from buying any healthcare plan through the federal marketplace – set up by President Obama’s embattled healthcare law – that includes abortion coverage.
A House committee amended the legislation last week to include a provision added after an anti-abortion doctor testified that he recently reversed a drug-induced abortion at 10 weeks, though he acknowledged the procedure is not widely known.
“This ability to reverse was not even known until recently,” said Dr Allan Sawyer, chairman of the bioethics committee at Banner Thunderbird medical center.
Allan said doctors can give a woman a drug known as progesterone to stop an abortion after she has taken the first of two medications needed to complete the procedure.
Dr Kathleen Morrell, an abortion doctor and advocate at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said the procedure is not evidence-based and has not been well researched.
“It’s experimental. It’s untested, and if we don’t know it works, then why are we doing it?” she said.
Well why not? Women here can also be pregnant before conception.
Arizona law requires abortion providers to tell women procedure is reversible
Bill forces providers to say they can reverse drug-induced abortions, and also bars women from buying healthcare that includes abortion coverage
Arizona lawmakers approved legislation that requires abortion providers to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion.
Advocates on both sides of the issue said it’s the first time such a reversal requirement has passed in the US, though Arkansas also is considering similar legislation. Critics say there’s no science to back up the requirement.
The Senate passed the proposal Wednesday on an 18-11 vote. It now heads to Republican governor Doug Ducey, who has pledged to defend the right to life but hasn’t weighed in on this specific legislation.
The law would also bar women from buying any healthcare plan through the federal marketplace – set up by President Obama’s embattled healthcare law – that includes abortion coverage.
A House committee amended the legislation last week to include a provision added after an anti-abortion doctor testified that he recently reversed a drug-induced abortion at 10 weeks, though he acknowledged the procedure is not widely known.
“This ability to reverse was not even known until recently,” said Dr Allan Sawyer, chairman of the bioethics committee at Banner Thunderbird medical center.
Allan said doctors can give a woman a drug known as progesterone to stop an abortion after she has taken the first of two medications needed to complete the procedure.
Dr Kathleen Morrell, an abortion doctor and advocate at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said the procedure is not evidence-based and has not been well researched.
“It’s experimental. It’s untested, and if we don’t know it works, then why are we doing it?” she said.
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