Louisiana Moves to Stamp Abortion Pills as Dangerous Substances

The Louisiana Senate voted to send a bill to the governor’s desk that would make it the only US state to impose criminal fines on the possession of abortion medication without a prescription.

The bill (SB276), which passed Thursday in a 29-7 vote, would add 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. Drugs under this category include medications that can be highly addictive, such as some narcotics, anxiety treatments like Xanax and Valium, and the insomnia medication Ambien. ...