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OH HAI!
@AngryBlackLady here.
Tennessee recently passed a law that requires doctors to lie to their patients.
Seems like a bit of an ethical pickle, does it not? Let’s get into it.
@AngryBlackLady here.
Tennessee recently passed a law that requires doctors to lie to their patients.
Seems like a bit of an ethical pickle, does it not? Let’s get into it.
This absurd Tennessee law forces abortion providers to tell their patients that—wait for ittttttt—
an abortion can be reversed.
Yep. You read that correctly.
If they don’t tell their patients this ridiculous lie, abortion providers may face FELONY charges.
an abortion can be reversed.
Yep. You read that correctly.
If they don’t tell their patients this ridiculous lie, abortion providers may face FELONY charges.
And before you ask, no—
No, an abortion cannot be reversed. It is utter nonsense.
No, an abortion cannot be reversed. It is utter nonsense.
It’s junk science based on the 
studies of two men who used pregnant women as guinea pigs for experimental treatment.
*ETHICAL PICKLE INTENSIFIES*
studies of two men who used pregnant women as guinea pigs for experimental treatment.*ETHICAL PICKLE INTENSIFIES*
But first, here’s how medication abortion works.
If you’re pregnant and want to terminate that pregnancy via self-managed abortion, you take a pill called mifepristone first.
Then later, you take another pill called misoprostol.
If you’re pregnant and want to terminate that pregnancy via self-managed abortion, you take a pill called mifepristone first.
Then later, you take another pill called misoprostol.
In about 50% of cases where a pregnant person takes the first pill and not the second, that pregnant person will remain pregnant.
Remember this. This is important.
Remember this. This is important.
Two quack doctors decided to try toreverse a medication abortion by injecting progesterone into women after they took the first pill.
They did this on 7 women. That was their sample group.
SEVEN WOMEN.
reverse a medication abortion by injecting progesterone into women after they took the first pill. They did this on 7 women. That was their sample group.
SEVEN WOMEN.
Oh, and they didn’t use a control group because of course they didn't.
Of these seven women:
1. two women had an abortion;
2. one woman dropped out of touch and couldn’t be located; and
3. four women maintained their pregnancy.
Check out @Rewire_News’s investigative report about it: https://rewire.news/article/2017/03/21/falsehood-becomes-law-abortion-reversal-case-study/
1. two women had an abortion;
2. one woman dropped out of touch and couldn’t be located; and
3. four women maintained their pregnancy.
Check out @Rewire_News’s investigative report about it: https://rewire.news/article/2017/03/21/falsehood-becomes-law-abortion-reversal-case-study/
But remember what I said earlier?
If you're pregnant and you only complete half of the medication abortion regimen—because you take only the first pill—you have a 50% chance of remaining pregnant anyway.
So the study results are nonsense, especially because NO CONTROL GROUP.
If you're pregnant and you only complete half of the medication abortion regimen—because you take only the first pill—you have a 50% chance of remaining pregnant anyway.
So the study results are nonsense, especially because NO CONTROL GROUP.
This is basic science, people. You gotta have a control group.
SO TO SUM UP:
States like Tennessee are forcing doctors to recommend an experimentalabortion reversalprocedure that doesn’t work based on the quackery of two doctors who used pregnant women as guinea pigs.
States like Tennessee are forcing doctors to recommend an experimental
abortion reversalprocedure that doesn’t work based on the quackery of two doctors who used pregnant women as guinea pigs.
These laws force doctors to say things they otherwise wouldn't say and to lie to their patients. Tennessee even provided a state-mandated script!
Does that sound like a First Amendment violation to you? Because it certainly sounds like one to me.
Does that sound like a First Amendment violation to you? Because it certainly sounds like one to me.
Fortunately, the Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit and will likely get Tennessee's nonsense abortion reversal law blocked forthwith.
These laws have already been blocked in other states like North Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Arkansas. https://twitter.com/ReproRights/status/1300549913470738432?s=20
These laws have already been blocked in other states like North Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Arkansas. https://twitter.com/ReproRights/status/1300549913470738432?s=20
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHY ABORTION REVERSAL IS NOT A THING:
Listen to this episode of #BoomLawyered that @Hegemommy and I recorded last year.
It’s got everything you need to know about these horrible and absurd laws. https://rewire.news/multimedia/podcast/abortion-reversal-is-b-s/
Listen to this episode of #BoomLawyered that @Hegemommy and I recorded last year.
It’s got everything you need to know about these horrible and absurd laws. https://rewire.news/multimedia/podcast/abortion-reversal-is-b-s/
