Spoiler alert: It’s not.
Louisiana Republicans voted on Thursday to classify mifepristone and misoprostol, the medications prescribed for abortions, as dangerous controlled substances. They did so under the guise of helping pregnant women though, of course, that is absolutely not what the legislation will do. The bill, which now heads to Republican governor Jeff Landry’s desk, makes possessing the drugs without a prescription a crime that could lead to jail time and thousands of dollars in fines.
“What it’s going to do is make it harder to use these drugs safely and legally,” Dr. Jennifer Avegno, the director of the New Orleans Health Department, told the Times. “It’s going to create confusion, fear, barriers to using these drugs for all of their non-abortion indications,” she added. In the understatement of the century, State Senator Thomas Pressly, who sponsored the bill, told colleagues Thursday: “I understand that it may give some in this body some heartburn.
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