Texas May Be Next State to Restrict Abortion Pills as "Controlled Substances"

[In It to Win It]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/louisiana-texas-bill-regulate-abortion-pills-controlled-substance-misoprostol-mifepristone/

Last month, Louisiana became the first state to begin classifying misoprostol and mifepristone—the two pills used in medication abortion—as schedule IV controlled substances.

The move, driven by anti-abortion Republicans and unsupported by evidence, left the state’s doctors bracing for the worst—the pills also are used to manage miscarriages and treat postpartum hemorrhages, and the new law requires they be locked away with other narcotics, potentially wasting precious minutes in an emergency. Hundreds of Louisiana doctors opposed the law, and one of them, Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, a board-certified OB-GYN in New Orleans, told me she feared other states would follow.

That fear may now come to pass: Pat Curry, a Republican lawmaker in Texas, pre-filed a bill in the state legislature this week that would classify the two drugs as schedule IV substances there. The next legislative session does not begin until January 14—if passed, the bill would take effect in September 2025. Curry did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from Mother Jones on Sunday, and appeared to block me from messaging him further after I inquired about the bill.

The news, which appears to have first been reported by the Louisiana Illuminator, is just the latest example of right-wing attacks on abortion pills. Project 2025, the extremist guidebook to a second Trump term, recommends that the Department of Justice invoke the 19th-century Comstock Act to prosecute providers of abortion pills, as I have previously reported. It also recommends that the Food and Drug Administration revoke its approval of abortion pills. Conservative attorneys general in three states are trying to revive a US Supreme Court case seeking to restrict access to mifepristone after the justices unanimously dismissed it earlier this year. And as the Guardian reported on Sunday, anti-abortion advocates hope to outlaw abortion pills nationwide during Trump’s next term.

[walkingman]

1. California has historically been the leader in most innovative things in America

and Texas is just the inverse of that. Not intentional, just culture.

[sakabatou]

2. How many times do we have to point it out to these idiots?

They're not pro-life, they're anti-women!

[Shermann]

7. Anti-women and pro-forced-birthing. nt

[Irish_Dem]

3. Any thing that helps women will be a crime.

Viagra of course will always be totally legal and handed out like candy.

[surfered]

5. And covered by prescription insurance

[Irish_Dem]

6. Of course. Medical records not tracked. No travel bans.

Doctors not sent to prison for prescribing them.

Handed out at low cost or free to all males who want them.

Men are completely free to cause the pregnancies which can be a death sentence for women.

[surfered]

8. I wish I knew an easy way of posting a photo. My wife found a good one

A Medusa looking woman holding a sword in one hand and the severed head of a man by its hair in her other. The caption : Your body, my ch——!

[Irish_Dem]

9. Oh my.

Women can only be pushed so far.

[surfered]

12. I figured it out and just posted that photo in General Discussion

[Irish_Dem]

13. Thanks, I will look for it.

[surfered]

4. As the GOP has total control of it, Texas seems to be the GOP's Petri dish for of ideas.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Incubator for evil.

The devil's nursery.

[Deep State Witch]

11. Can You Buy Abortion Pills OTC in Mexico?

Does anyone know if you can buy mifepristone and misoprostol over the counter in Mexico? If so, can you bring them into the US? Asking for a friend.

[roamer65]

14. Arthrotec.

Google it.