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Post by Logan on Apr 1, 2017 22:07:09 GMT -6
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's governor signed legislation on Saturday that would require doctors to inform women that medication-induced abortions can be halted after taking just one of two pills, despite doctors' groups saying there is little evidence to back up that idea. Proponents of the idea said doctors can give a woman the hormone progesterone to stop an abortion after she has taken the first of two medications needed to complete the abortion. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said that there is no medically accepted evidence that a drug-induced abortion can be interrupted. Since 2015, Arkansas and South Dakota have enacted laws requiring doctors to tell women about stopping an abortion. Read more: www.standard.net/State/2017/03/27/Utah-s-governor-signs-abortion-halting-legislation.html
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