PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s attorney general won’t enforce a disputed section of a new law requiring abortion providers to tell women they can reverse drug-induced abortions until the matter can be sorted in court.
The decision made public Tuesday comes as the state prepares to defend itself in a lawsuit filed by abortion providers.
Critics have said there’s no science that shows drug-induced abortions can be reversed, and abortion providers argue it’s unconstitutional to require doctors to say something that goes against their medical judgment.
The law is the latest anti-abortion measures passed by Arizona’s Republican-led Legislature in recent years.
Its main provision bars women from purchasing health care plans under the Affordable Care Act that include abortion coverage.
A federal judge could hear arguments as early as September.
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The next law the Arizona legislature will pass will require science teachers to tell their students that the Earth is only 6000 years old, that droughts and dust storms are caused by gay people, and that global climate change is a myth because God would never hurt or injure the righteous Jesus-loving people on this planet.
Oral arguments on a suit challenging that law would also be prohibited by the law, itself, because: God wanted that law.
Oh Gawd, what next, schoolchildren aren’t told Jesus rode a dinosaur!!! Grrrr…
Hmmm, I guess the recent fatal floods in Houston tell us the sort of Godless heathens inhabiting that city.
That’s good since it’s NOT TRUE!
I want laws barring men’s health care from being funded by the state.
Additionally, as someone who opposes militarization and war, I want my taxpayer dollars to never ever go to buying weapons unless war was actually declared after a direct assault on American soil.