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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona abortion providers are asking a federal judge to block part of a recently passed law that would require doctors to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion.
Planned Parenthood and Star Family Planning argue the new law violates abortion providers' First Amendment rights by forcing them to repeat a state-mandated message against their medical judgment.
Proponents of the law say doctors can give a woman a drug to stop an abortion after she has taken the first of two medications in the procedure. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says there is no medically accepted evidence that a drug-induced abortion can be reversed.
Gov. Doug Ducey's office says he is reviewing the lawsuit but believes women deserve to know all of their options when considering an important medical decision such as abortion.
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