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planning clinic in Rockville, Maryland. Mifepristone is part of a two-drug regimen to induce an abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy in combination with the drug misoprostol. Louisiana is criminalizing the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol, just two years after the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe versus Wade and leave decisions on abortion law to the states.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Mifeprex and misoprostol for medication abortion in 2000. Mifepristone is a drug that blocks progesterone, which is needed for a pregnancy to continue. When used in conjunction with misoprostol, mifepristone ends early pregnancies . Medication abortion accounts for aboutApple Insider Details An Expensive iPhone Pro Decision
Additionally, the law would require doctors to have a specific license to prescribe the drugs that can only be stored in a limited number of specifically designated facilities, some of which will be far from rural clinics.that even though the bill technically excludes pregnant women from prosecution, the criminalization measure is likely to “scare many Louisiana abortion seekers out of ordering the pills online.
The differences in classification are often explainable, as in the instances of gabapentin and marijuana which are sometimes misused which can lead to severe health risks. But this isn’t the case with mifepristone or misoprostol. Louisiana’s reclassification isn’t related to evidence regarding public health risks.
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