New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against an anti-abortion group that claims it can halt a medication abortion midway through after the patient has taken the drug, which is, of course, a lie, the Guardian reports.
Heartbeat International, a group affiliated with 2,000 so-called “abortion crisis centers” around the world, promoted “abortion pill reversal” to pregnant patients to get them to avoid abortion. The process was clinically tested in 2019 but the test was quickly stopped after three patients in the study were hospitalized after. hemorrhaging blood. The American College of OB-GYNs said the procedure is “not based on science and do not meet clinical standards.”
“Obtaining accurate information can be especially difficult in the context of reproductive healthcare, where opponents of abortion intentionally distort and obfuscate facts to convince, scare, shame, or guilt people facing unintended pregnancy into deciding not to obtain or complete abortions at a moment when they are particularly vulnerable,” the AG states in the lawsuit. “Defendants’ consumer-oriented statements distort the evidence and mislead New Yorkers to undergo this experimental ‘treatment’, believing that it has been proven safe and effective, when it has not.”