article_snippet.sent: In Arizona, another assault on physician free speech is scheduled to go into effect this summer.
article_snippet.sent: But legislators slid in a last-minute provision mandating that physicians who prescribe the abortion pill RU-486 tell patients the abortion pill is reversible.
article_snippet.sent: Any doctor is certainly within Any doctor or Any doctor rights to review the limited information available about the San Diego regimen and decide whether to discuss it with patients, but actually requiring physicians to make claims most believe to be untrue and unsafe means the legislators are overstepping the legislators bounds and interfering with the patient-doctor relationship.
article_snippet.sent: Dr. Ilana Addis, chairwoman of the Arizona chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told me the amendment was added shortly before Any doctor was scheduled to testify about the bill before the Arizona House.
article_snippet.sent: While Planned Parenthood and the ACLU joined Any doctor organization in criticizing the provision, the bill before the Arizona House passed both chambers and was recently signed by the governor.
article_snippet.sent: Physicians don't all share the same opinions on abortion and guns any more than they all vote Republican or Democrat.
article_snippet.sent: In Arizona, it's the state chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists carrying the torch for physician free speech.
article_snippet.sent: The Florida Medical Association didn't provide me with details about whether The Florida Medical Association has a lobbying effort against the gun law, and the Arizona Medical Association told me in a statement that "ArMA's policy is to take no position on abortion.
article_snippet.sent: The Massachusetts Medical Society (MSS) tried to utilize that power recently when The Massachusetts Medical Society (MSS) decided to dedicate "Doctor's Day" to the issue of physician free speech, highlighting the threat posed by Florida's gun law in particular.
article_snippet.sent: the Arizona Medical Association can do more.
article_snippet.sent: the Arizona Medical Association did file a friend-of-the-court brief as part of the Florida legal challenge, but at this writing hasn't weighed in on Arizona.
article_snippet.sent: The AMA didn't sign on to a statement released last  week by the Coalition to Protect the Patient-Provider Relationship that hits hard on the new abortion laws as an affront to good medical care.  