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Committee hears passionate testimony on "abortion-pill reversal" notice bill
Summary
Sponsor said HB1702 would provide informed-consent notices about abortion-pill reversal; medical groups and reproductive-health advocates opposed the bill as unsupported by clinical evidence and legally problematic.
Representative Sam Farrington introduced HB1702, which would require providers who prescribe medication abortion to give advance notice about a purported procedure called "abortion-pill reversal," in which high-dose progesterone is used after mifepristone to attempt to sustain a pregnancy.
Farrington said the bill does not ban medication abortion but would post notices and supply contact information for…
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