David Grimes, MD is former Chief of the Abortion Surveillance Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the author of the new book, “Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation.”
Arizona will soon require providers to inform patients that it is possible to reverse the effects of a medication abortion. But there is little scientific evidence supporting progesterone-based "abortion reversal."
In the 1990s, abortion opponents coined the term "partial-birth abortion" to convince lawmakers to ban an uncommon method. Now, they're trying the same strategy—this time, on a procedure used in almost every second-trimester abortion.
