{"id":83725,"date":"2015-12-30T04:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=83725"},"modified":"2015-12-30T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:46:46","slug":"planned-parenthood-seeks-injunction-arkansas-chemical-abortion-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-seeks-injunction-arkansas-chemical-abortion-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood seeks injunction against Arkansas chemical abortion regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Planned Parenthood\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/planned-parenthood-heartland\/who-we-are\">affiliate<\/a> covering Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Oklahoma, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/ArkansasBlog\/archives\/2015\/12\/28\/planned-parenthood-files-new-suit-against-arkansas\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> against a newly-enacted Arkansas law requiring abortion\u00a0drugs be prescribed in accordance with federal Food and Drug Administration standards.<\/p>\n<p>The law, which is slated to go into effect Friday, requires Mifeprex medication abortions (mifepristone and misoprostol) to be administered at the dose the FDA recommends rather than the much lower dosage that has become common among abortion practice, and that women take misoprostol pills in-clinic rather than on their own.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood claims the FDA protocols are based on outdated and obsolete medical knowledge, and that by taking effect the law &#8220;would end access to two out of the three abortion-providing health centers in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, as Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/ok-judge-throws-law-banning-off-label-use-abortion-drugs\/\">covered<\/a> regarding similar legal battles in other states, these drugs have been linked to several deaths by sepsis and many personal accounts of negative experiences. A 2011 study published in the Australian Family Physician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/study-finds-ru-486-much-more-dangerous-than-surgical-abortion\">found<\/a> that chemical abortions carried substantially higher rates of medical complications than surgical abortions.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasmatters.com\/news\/local-news\/planned-parenthood-seeks-to-block-ark-abortion-law\">declined<\/a> to comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Planned Parenthood\u00a0affiliate covering Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Oklahoma, has filed a lawsuit against a newly-enacted Arkansas law requiring abortion\u00a0drugs be prescribed in accordance with federal Food and Drug Administration standards. The law, which is slated to go into effect Friday, requires Mifeprex medication abortions (mifepristone and misoprostol) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":53441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,2256,6885,3794,5487,6886,6888,997,460,14,1339,2812,6887],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Planned Parenthood seeks injunction against Arkansas chemical abortion regulations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The law requires chemical abortion pills to be administered at the FDA recommended dose, and that women take the pills in-clinic.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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