Someone possessing the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice could be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.
Mifepristone is one of the two drugs prescribed for medication abortions. Louisiana lawmakers are moving to put it, along with misoprostol, in the same category of drugs as opioids and depressants. become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice.
“Adding a safe, medically indicated drug for miscarriage management … creates the false perception that these are dangerous drugs that require additional regulation,” they wrote in a letter sent last week to the bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Thomas Pressly. They noted misoprostol’s other critical uses, including to prevent gastrointestinal ulcers and to aid in labor and delivery.The measure is awaiting a final vote in the House before the session ends June 3, with little opposition expected.
His connection to the issue is in part personal. During public testimony in April before the Senate Judiciary Committee, his sister recounted how her then-husband surreptitiously gave her an abortion drug in 2022 when he brought her breakfast for St. Patrick’s Day. They were separated, but Catherine Pressly Herring
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