The medical community has characterized so-called abortion reversal as “junk science” and “tantamount to quackery," even as anti-choice legislators continue to back the concept.
"Medically unnecessary restrictions like admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center requirements are state mandated laws thought up by extremists in Jefferson City," Planned Parenthood Great Plains officials said in a statement.
In particular, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is connected to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an extreme libertarian doctors group that espouses many of the lies about abortion safety long rejected by the medical and scientific communities.
Heath Mello has sponsored a range of anti-choice measures, including a 20-week abortion ban. He was previously endorsed by anti-choice group Nebraska Right to Life.
The state's most prominent anti-choice lobby reportedly collaborated with GOP legislators in Texas to funnel millions to fake clinics, or crisis pregnancy centers.
Jon Ossoff will compete in a runoff election against Karen Handel, who says she wants to be "a trusted partner" of anti-choice organizations looking to erode access to abortion care.
