Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall suggested women who use abortion pills could be prosecuted under a law first passed to protect children from meth lab fumes.
to people in states that have banned or restricted the procedure. It noted that two pills commonly used to perform abortions, mifepristone and misoprostol, also can be used for other purposes such as managing miscarriages or treating gastric ulcers, and said that federal law allows the delivery of the pills because the sender cannot know with certainty how they will be used.
But Marshall maintained this would not affect Alabama. “Elective abortion — including abortion pills — is illegal in Alabama. Nothing about the Justice Department’s guidance changes that,” he said. “Anyone who remotely prescribes abortion pills in Alabama does so at their own peril: I will vigorously enforce Alabama law to protect unborn life.”
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