NASHVILLE, Tenn.: A federal judge has blocked a Tennessee law that required women undergoing drug-induced abortions be informed the procedure could be reversed.
The statute was about to go into effect Wednesday after the GOP-dominant General Assembly advanced a sweeping anti-abortion measure earlier this year. The law included not only the so-called abortion reversal provision, but also a ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected about six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
Both portions of that statute are now blocked from being implemented as these legal cases make their way through court.
Under the Tennessee law, doctors would be required to inform women that drug-induced abortions may be halted halfway. Medical groups say the claim is nat backed up by science and there is little information about the reversal procedures safety.
Those who…