New York sues anti-abortion groups for promoting false treatments to reverse medication abortions

NEW YORK -- New York is suing an anti-abortion radical and astir a twelve gestation counseling centers for promoting an unproven method to reverse medicine abortions, Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday.

James, a Democrat, sued Heartbeat International and 11 gestation centers successful authorities Supreme Court successful Manhattan, arguing the groups violated laws astir making mendacious oregon misleading advertisements.

The lawsuit follows a akin suit successful California and different ineligible enactment successful states specified arsenic Colorado regarding unsubstantiated treatments to reverse medicine abortions.

Medication termination is the astir communal mode to extremity a pregnancy. The process involves taking 2 antithetic drugs — mifepristone and misoprostol — days apart.

According to the New York lawsuit, the organizations beforehand a protocol called the “Abortion Pill Reversal," successful which a idiosyncratic who has taken mifepristone is advised not to instrumentality the follow-up of misoprostol and alternatively is fixed repeated doses of the hormone progesterone.

The alleged “Abortion Pill Reversal" attraction has not been approved by national regulators and large aesculapian associations person warned that the protocol is unproven and unscientific, the suit said.

“Abortions cannot beryllium reversed. Any treatments that assertion to bash truthful are made without technological grounds and could beryllium unsafe,” James said successful a statement.

Heartbeat International, successful a statement, said the suit is “a wide effort to censor speech."