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RandySF

(60,058 posts) Thu May 2, 2024, 03:16 AM May 2

Louisiana Lawmakers Move to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills

LOUISIANA LAWMAKERS ARE trying to quietly criminalize possession of the most commonly used abortion pills.

In a move that took the state’s abortion advocates and OB-GYNs by surprise, last-minute amendments that would place mifepristone and misoprostol on the state’s list of controlled substances were added to a bill focused on making “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud” a crime.

State Sen. Thomas Pressly (R) filed Senate Bill 276 in honor of his sister, whose husband slipped abortion medication in her drink without her consent. The House Criminal Justice Committee heard multiple bills regarding abortion Tuesday, and there was not much buzz surrounding this particular one, until Pressly submitted the set of amendments that would classify the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol as Schedule IV controlled substances under Louisiana law.

Abortion is almost completely illegal in Louisiana. Mifepristone and misoprostol both have other uses.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/louisiana-criminalize-possession-abortion-pills-1235013039/

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Louisiana Lawmakers Move to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills (Original Post) RandySF May 2 OP

Pressly's "interesting" family story doesn't justify interfering with other people's medical decisions. Timeflyer May 2 #1

That's plainly a different kind of story Mad_Machine76 May 2 #2

I think the women of Louisiana should go all Lysistrata on them. nt trusty elf May 2 #3

Just shaking my head Old Crank May 2 #4

That's gotta be unconstitutional. Martin68 May 2 #5

Republicans don't care. It is ALL about the cruelty Traurigkeit May 2 #6

What the husband did would ALREADY be illegal, right? oldsoftie May 2 #7

Hey, La Republicans --- azureblue May 2 #8

Timeflyer

(2,075 posts)

1. Pressly's "interesting" family story doesn't justify interfering with other people's medical decisions.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu May 2, 2024, 12:59 PM

May 2

Mad_Machine76

(24,465 posts)

2. That's plainly a different kind of story

Reply to Timeflyer (Reply #1)

Thu May 2, 2024, 01:02 PM

May 2

Drugging somebody should be a crime (if it isn't already?), not wholesale banning a drug just because it happened to be used improperly/without consent.