Currently, six states — Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, Utah and South Dakota — have laws in effect requiring doctors to inform their patients of medication abortion reversal. Three of these states — Arkansas, Kentucky and Nebraska — plus Oklahoma and North Dakota, whose laws are not currently active, have signed medication abortion reversal bills into law within the past year.
According to Center for Reproductive Rights attorney Gail Deady, the abortion rights organization chose to target Oklahoma’s law because it contains the “most severe penalty” against doctors found in similar medication abortion “reversal” laws around the country. Anti-abortion public interest law firm Americans United for Life penned the model legislation adopted by these states — a bill they refer to as the “Women’s Right to Know Act.” They argue that such laws are necessary in order to ensure that women can give informed consent to an abortion.
Proponents of the so-called"pill reversal" contend that if a woman does not take the second pill and instead receives injections of progesterone, the abortion can be “reversed” and the pregnancy can be carried to term.