Ohio lawmakers reintroduce medically unproven 'abortion reversal' bill [View all]

Ohio lawmakers are once again proposing that patients be made aware of a controversial and unproven “abortion reversal” method.

State Reps. Kyle Koehler, R-Springfield, and Sarah Fowler Arthur, R-Ashtabula, are the main sponsors of a bill they are calling the “Abortion Pill Reversal Information Act.” Two-dozen Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives have signed on as cosponsors.

“This bill does not require women to reverse their abortions,” Koehler said in a provided statement released alongside the Ohio Right to Life group. “Instead, this legislation provides scientific and proven medical information to mothers in crisis.”

House Bill 378 involves the medication abortion drug mifepristone, which is used in conjunction with a drug called misoprostol, to end pregnancy. Physicians would be required to tell patients about a method that anti-abortion advocates say would “reverse” the abortion.

Read more: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/07/16/ohio-lawmakers-reintroduce-medically-unproven-abortion-reversal-bill/