NEW YORK (AP) — New York is suing an anti-abortion group and nearly a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for promoting an unproven method for reversing medication abortionsAttorney General Letícia James announced Monday.
James, a Democrat, sued Heartbeat International and 11 pregnancy centers in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, arguing that the groups violated laws about creating false or misleading advertisements.
The case follows a similar process in California and other legal actions in states such as Colorado about unproven treatments to reverse medical abortions.
Medication abortion It is the most common way to terminate a pregnancy. The process involves taking two different medications – mifepristone and misoprostol – days apart.
According to the New York lawsuit, the organizations promote a protocol called “Abortion Pill Reversal,” in which a person who has taken mifepristone is advised not to follow up with misoprostol and instead receives repeated doses of the hormone progesterone. .
The so-called “abortion pill reversal” treatment has not been approved by federal regulators and major medical associations have warned that the protocol is unproven and unscientific, the lawsuit claims.
“Abortions cannot be reversed. Any treatments that claim to do so are made without scientific evidence and may be unsafe,” James said in a statement.
Heartbeat International, in a statement, said the lawsuit is “a clear attempt to censor speech.”
