A federal judge in July had issued a preliminary injunction but ordered Planned Parenthood to continue trying to find a contracting physician. Planned Parenthood had argued Arkansas’ restriction would have made the state the first in the nation to effectively ban abortion pills. But Planned Parenthood argued that such complications are rare, and that those complications can be handled by hospitals without contacting the group’s physicians. Planned Parenthood administers pills to end pregnancies at its clinics in Fayetteville and Little Rock, but does not perform surgical abortions. Brownstein said finding a physician doesn’t alleviate the concerns Planned Parenthood raised about the restriction, which was approved by state’s Republican legislature and governor in 2015.

Source: National Post November 05, 2018 23:15 UTC