Abortion opponents contend the bill ensures that women who harbour doubts about ending their pregnancies will learn of a safe procedure for reversing a medication abortion. Abortion rights supporters contend that it’s based on junk science and the state would force doctors to provide dubious information to their patients. The bill would require abortion providers to tell patients that medication abortions can be reversed after they take the first of two pills. The Republican-controlled Kansas House approved the abortion “reversal” bill on an 85-35 vote, and the GOP-dominated Senate passed it on a 26-11 vote. Under the bill, an abortion clinic would have a display a sign with the abortion reversal notice, and the physician would have to tell a patient in writing that a medication abortion can be reversed.

Source: thestar April 06, 2019 01:17 UTC