SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah’s House of Representatives has approved a bill that would require doctors to inform women that drug-induced abortions may be halted halfway through, despite one lawmaker saying there’s little science to back up that idea.
Bill sponsor Republican Rep. Keven Stratton told lawmakers on Friday that the plan would help to inform women about their options.
Proponents of the idea say doctors can give a woman the hormone progesterone to stop an abortion after she has taken the first of two medications needed to complete the abortion.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said that there is no medically accepted evidence that a drug-induced abortion can be interrupted.
The plan will now advance to the Senate for debate.
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