Republican lawmakers in the southern US state of Louisiana gave final approval yesterday to a bill that would criminalise possession of abortion pill mifepristone without a prescription. — Reuters picWASHINGTON, May 24 — Republican lawmakers in the southern US state of Louisiana gave final approval yesterday to a bill that would criminalise possession of abortion pill s without a prescription.
Authorised medical practitioners would be exempt from prosecution, as would pregnant women if they had the medication for their own use.“This is a direct result of Trump overturning Roe v. Wade,” he said in a statement released by his re-election campaign, referring to the landmark Supreme Court ruling that enshrined the constitutional right to abortion for half a century.
It said the use of medication — rather than surgical procedures — to terminate pregnancy has risen steadily since the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in the United States in 2000.
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