Colorado cannot ban unproven abortion pill reversal treatment, judge says
Colorado cannot ban unproven abortion pill reversal treatment, judge says
Colorado cannot stop a Catholic medical center from offering an unproven treatment meant to reverse the effects of pill used in medication abortion, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico said in an opinion on Saturday that a Colorado law banning so-called medication abortion reversal treatment likely violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom. His order stops the state from enforcing the law against Bella Health and Wellness, which sued to block it, or against anyone else working with Bella Health, while he considers the medical center's challenge to the law.
The office of Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, which defended the law, declined to comment.
Medication abortion begins with the drug mifepristone, which blocks the action of the hormone progesterone, crucial for sustaining pregnancy, and is completed with a second drug, misoprostol. Proponents of the so-called medication abortion reversal say that if a woman changes her mind after taking mifepristone but before taking misoprostol, the pregnancy can be continued by administering a high dose of progesterone.
There are no large controlled studies of the treatment, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said that its safety and efficacy are unsupported by science.
Someday it would be nice to see judicial decisions on women's healthcare be supported by science instead of a Constitution written by mostly men.
Allowing unproven medical procedures on the basis of religious freedom is truly a wacky preposition.
If biology for humans were such that both participants had an unpredictable, uncontrollable, 50/50 chance to carry the baby, abortion access for all and would be a non-issue.
Alternatively, if Jerry Falwell never existed, it still wouldn't be nearly as contentious an issue.
Humans in any meaningful numbers never fail to find a group of their own to single out, marginalize, and persecute out of schadenfreude.
You're supposing the judge obeyed the Constitution here. He did not; freedom of religion is not freedom to defraud, and the people selling this drug are committing fraud.
*mostly white men who would be rather confused by the whole thing.
Partly because abortions were common if not particularly talked about.
One wonders, how many people have asked for this treatment? I’m guessing it’s not super common, and quite possibly the lawsuit is wishful thinking.
The first time someone has an adverse reaction, it's over. The medical community is protected by the fact that things are heavily tested and regulated. If you have a complication related to a treatment, it will be a known risk. When you give someone snake oil and they die from it, you're done.
Once this reversal thing is a thing the next phase is to demand counseling appoinments be held in between pills.
And before.
Yeah.
LOL your religious liberty is to use quack medicine now?