<p>INDIANAPOLIS — Doctors in Indiana would be required to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a disputed treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process under a measure that’s been signed into law.</p>
<p>Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the bill Thursday, two weeks after the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/legislature-medication-abortion-indiana-bills-ab2412639037d870c42caee640404eee">GOP-dominated Legislature gave it final approval.</a></p>
<p>Republican lawmakers pushed the bill, despite <a href="https://apnews.com/article/legislature-medication-abortion-indiana-bills-853a2aa23a2ae64c876152de3c5cde6c">objections that it would force doctors</a> to provide dubious information to their patients. Supporters say the requirement would ensure that a woman can halt a medication-induced abortion if she changes her mind after taking the first of the two drugs used in the procedure and takes another drug instead.</p>
<p>The law is scheduled to take effect in July but could be challenged in federal court before then.</p>
<p>The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which has successfully sued to block several Indiana anti-abortion laws over the past decade, has said the requirement “runs afoul of the Constitution.”</p>
<p>Six states already have similar requirements in place, while such laws in North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee have been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/statutes-tennessee-abortion-archive-courts-f36aaecb51cc835eba123e10c406d208">blocked by legal challenges,</a> according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.</p>
