{"id":205896,"date":"2019-07-05T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205896"},"modified":"2019-07-07T00:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T05:24:02","slug":"american-medical-association-sues-north-dakota-abortionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/american-medical-association-sues-north-dakota-abortionists\/","title":{"rendered":"American Medical Association sues North Dakota for forcing abortionists to discuss preborn humans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a display of what many perceive as pro-abortion activism, the American Medical Association (AMA) has joined forces with the Center for Reproductive Rights and local pro-abortion providers in a lawsuit<\/a> against the state of North Dakota over new pro-life regulations.<\/p>\n

North Dakota House Bill 1336, which was signed into law on March 22nd, requires<\/a> physicians to discuss the nature of abortion, stating that \u201cthe abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.\u201d It also states that physicians must present all the options to a woman seeking an abortion, informing her at least 24 hours in advance that \u201cit may be possible to reverse the effects of an abortion-inducing drug\u201d should she feel coerced, or come to regret her decision.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, the AMA argues that the law violates the First Amendment rights of the small number of doctors in the state who perform abortions by forcing them to give women options other than abortion. Some have claimed this is akin to making physicians \u201cact as the government\u2019s mouthpiece,\u201d as NBC News reported<\/a>. The AMA argues that assertions about \u201cfetal personhood\u201d are \u201cunmoored from medical science,” according to The Hill<\/a>, and that abortion reversal is a procedure \u201cwholly unsupported by the best, most reliable scientific evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n