GOOGLE IT: That's Sen. Missy Irvin's advice on "reversing" an abortion pill.

The Senate today voted 29-6 to pass more anti-abortion legislation based on junk science.

It will require doctors who provide the two-pill regimen to cause a miscarriage in the first few weeks of pregnancy to tell women that they can “reverse” the procedure by  not taking the second pill. This is  baloney.

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That’s not the craziest part. The Arkansas Senate urges women to practice medicine by Google.

A similar law has been blocked in Arizona because it’s junk science. Who cares? Arkansas will bear any legal cost and impose any burden on women to prevent abortion. That’s just how it is. But today was particularly nutty.

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There is still more legislation in the works to place limits on abortion providers not placed on any other doctor — be it emergency equipment, scare notices for patients, billing impediments or extraordinary qualifications.

Today, for example, some proclaimed “pro-life” legislators said pharmacists could distribute birth control pills without a prescription. Good. And good they rejected junk science from the Family Council that birth control pills are abortions.

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But this same group likely can be counted on to support the legislation that will allow only a doctor board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology to dispense similar pills early in pregnancy. A pharmacist yes. A medical doctor no? They’ll conveniently forget testimony this morning about a lack of ob/gyn doctors in about 45 of Arkansas’s 75 counties. 

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