ARIZONA–(ENEWSPF)–April 1, 2016. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) signed a measure into law late last night which would restrict women’s access to medication abortion by forcing them to use a method of administering the medications that appears on the outdated, inferior, and less effective drug label originally approved by the FDA over 15 years ago in 2000. Remarkably, today’s action comes only two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it approved a change to the label for medication abortion–sold under the label Mifeprex® in the United States–in order to better reflect current medical practice and knowledge gained from scientific evidence accumulated over recent years. Flying in the face of advances in medicine and science, Arizona’s law would require women to follow the outdated protocol, which was based on data from the 1990s.
