The Senate today voted 29-6 to pass more anti-abortion legislation based on junk science.

It will require doctors who provide the two-pill regimen to cause a miscarriage in the first few weeks of pregnancy to tell women that they can “reverse” the procedure by not taking the second pill. This is baloney .

No clinical trials have proven that reversing a medication abortion is possible. The medical protocol that "reversal" proponents advocate has never been tested for safety, effectiveness, or the likelihood of side effects. #SB341 #arpx #arleg — PPGP Votes Arkansas (@PPGreatPlainsAR) February 28, 2019



That’s not the craziest part. The Arkansas Senate urges women to practice medicine by Google.

The notice that #SB341 makes mandatory says "you can locate immediate help by searching the term 'abortion pill reversal' on the internet." Telling patients to google care is disrespectful to patients and to medical professionals, and it's embarrassing for our state. #arpx #arleg — PPGP Votes Arkansas (@PPGreatPlainsAR) February 28, 2019

A similar law has been blocked in Arizona because it’s junk science. Who cares? Arkansas will bear any legal cost and impose any burden on women to prevent abortion. That’s just how it is. But today was particularly nutty.


There is still more legislation in the works to place limits on abortion providers not placed on any other doctor — be it emergency equipment, scare notices for patients, billing impediments or extraordinary qualifications.

Today, for example, some proclaimed “pro-life” legislators said pharmacists could distribute birth control pills without a prescription. Good. And good they rejected junk science from the Family Council that birth control pills are abortions.

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