Post by Logan on Jan 27, 2016 20:52:35 GMT -6
PHOENIX — Abortion foes at the Legislature are trying an end run around a state judge who last year declared some limits on medication abortions enacted by lawmakers illegal.
But other legal hurdles to the restriction remain.
The proposed new version of the law, like its voided predecessor, seeks to block medication abortions after the seventh week of pregnancy, forcing women who want to terminate a pregnancy after that point to undergo a more expensive and medically intrusive surgical procedure.
That flies in the face of the current practice of using RU-486 — the abortion pill — through the ninth week.
But there’s an important change.
The original 2012 law said Arizona doctors had to follow the label directions for the drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For the moment, that has the seven-week limit.
Read more: tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/new-bill-changes-provisions-in-medical-abortion-law/article_c0e9b921-b95f-5b6f-b5ca-1ae76cee469d.html
But other legal hurdles to the restriction remain.
The proposed new version of the law, like its voided predecessor, seeks to block medication abortions after the seventh week of pregnancy, forcing women who want to terminate a pregnancy after that point to undergo a more expensive and medically intrusive surgical procedure.
That flies in the face of the current practice of using RU-486 — the abortion pill — through the ninth week.
But there’s an important change.
The original 2012 law said Arizona doctors had to follow the label directions for the drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For the moment, that has the seven-week limit.
Read more: tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/new-bill-changes-provisions-in-medical-abortion-law/article_c0e9b921-b95f-5b6f-b5ca-1ae76cee469d.html