An Arizona law that would require doctors to tell falsely tell patients that medication abortions are “reversible” has temporarily been blocked. The law was passed in March; a group of Arizona healthcare providers, backed by Planned Parenthood, promptly sued. That’s because saying medication abortions are reversible is, in the words of one doctor, “tantamount to quackery.”
SB 1318, backed by a dubious anti-abortion group called the Center for Arizona Policy, would require healthcare providers to tell abortion-seeking patients that medication abortions—in which the patient takes a dose of mifepristone, and then, a day or two later, a dose of misoprostol—can be reversed. That dubious claim comes from precisely one doctor, George Delgado, who claims he’s reversed abortions with high doses of progesterone. He tested that regimen on six women, four of whom he says continued their pregnancies. The progesterone regimen hasn’t been studied otherwise.
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