Anti-Abortion Groups Eye Louisiana Pill Restriction Law as Model

A first-of-its-kind Louisiana law classifying abortion-inducing drugs as dangerous controlled substances is motivating national anti-abortion groups to ramp up policy work in states to limit access to the medications.

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on May 24 signed into law a bill adding mifepristone and misoprostol—the two drugs used in the FDA-approved regimen to induce an abortion—to the list of Schedule IV drugs under Louisiana’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law.

The law, which officially takes effect Oct. 1, means the medications would be under the same category as drugs with the potential for addiction or abuse, and allow Louisiana to impose ...