Judge Blocks North Dakota’s Anti-Abortion Law: ‘Devoid of Scientific Support, Misleading and Untrue’ by Colin Kalmbacher @ LawandCrime.com, September 10th, 2019

A federal court in North Dakota has blocked a controversial anti-abortion law from taking effect. The law required physicians to counsel patients that an abortion performed via medication could be reversed if they changed their mind during the procedure.

Recently passed by the North Dakota legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, the requirement effectively compelled doctors lie to their abortion-seeking patients. There is, in fact, no way to reverse an abortion induced by medication.

In a 24-page order enjoining the law from taking effect, U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland made a point to highlight that the so-called “abortion reversal” protocol mandated by House Bill 1336 “is devoid of scientific support, misleading, and untrue.”

The terms of that now pre-defunct law read, in relevant part [....]