Louisiana Lawmakers Move to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills

[RandySF]

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/

[Timeflyer]

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

[Mad_Machine76]

2. That's plainly a different kind of story

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.

[trusty elf]

3. I think the women of Louisiana should go all Lysistrata on them. nt

[Old Crank]

4. Just shaking my head

Women had better wake up and not vote for the GOP. Next is birthcontrol.

[Martin68]

5. That's gotta be unconstitutional.

[Traurigkeit]

6. Republicans don't care. It is ALL about the cruelty

[oldsoftie]

7. What the husband did would ALREADY be illegal, right?

The guy DRUGGED his wife. Doesnt matter who it was or what the drug was, thats illegal.

[azureblue]

8. Hey, La Republicans ---

You do know that Leviticus forbids eating shellfish, don't you? And the Bible does not forbid abortion?