Louisiana moves to add abortion pills to list of controlled dangerous substances

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State lawmakers add amendment to anti-abortion bill to reclassify mifepristone and misoprostol as Schedule IV drugs

Louisiana may soon become the first state in the country to pass a bill adding two common abortion pills to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, leading individuals who are caught with the drugs and lack authorization to potentially face years in prison.

that in the six months after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, about 26,000 more Americans used pills to induce their own at-home abortions than would have done so had Roe not collapsed. “Pills by mail – they’re in all 50 states and authorities have not been able to prevent that from happening,” Wells said. “The mail system is large and complex and many things are traveling through the mail that the authorities have not been able to regulate. We think it’s too large a problem for them to effectively address.”

“That baby is innocent,” said one Republican committee member, Dodie Horton, as she voted against the bill,The Democratic representative who proposed that bill, Delisha Boyd, said that her mother gave birth to Boyd after being raped at 15. Her mother never got over the rape and died before 30, according to Boyd.

 

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