Louisiana moves to make abortion pills 'controlled dangerous substances'

[RandySF]

Louisiana could become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice.

Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute amendment to a Senate bill that would criminalize an abortion if someone gives a pregnant woman the pills without her consent, a scenario of “coerced criminal abortion” that nearly occurred with one senator’s sister.

A pregnant woman obtaining the two drugs “for her own consumption” would not be at risk of prosecution. But, with the exception of a health-care practitioner, a person helping her get the pills would be.

Louisiana already bans both medication and surgical abortions except to save a patient’s life or because a pregnancy is “medically futile.” Lawmakers just rejected adding exceptions for teenagers under 17 who become pregnant through rape or incest.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/13/abortion-pills-louisiana-controlled-substance/

[SupportSanity]

1. It's time to start pushing bills thru to make Viagra a controlled substance.

[DFW]

2. When the rest of the world starts reacting in kind

That is, warning its citizens to stay away from Louisiana as a dangerous place, let’s see if the people who depend on tourism there are still so supportive of such moves.