Louisiana will become the first in the United States on Tuesday to categorize two widely used abortion-inducing pills as “controlled dangerous substances.”

On Tuesday, Louisiana will become the first state in the U.S. to categorize two widely used abortion pills as “controlled dangerous substances.”

Opponents argue the classification could have catastrophic impacts in a state that already has a near-total abortion ban and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation. Doctors fear the reclassification will cause delays in accessing the drugs — mifepristone and misoprostol — which together can be used to manage miscarriages, while misoprostol induces labor and treats severe bleeding after delivery. They also worry the practice of reclassifying the drugs might spread beyond Louisiana.

Proponents say the new law should help prevent coerced abortion, pointing to a Texas case in which a pregnant woman was given seven misoprostol pills by her husband without her knowledge; the baby survived. Over the past 15 years, news outlets have reported on similar cases — none in Louisiana — but the issue does not appear widespread.

  • graycube@lemmy.world
    40·
    2 months ago

    This only impacts poor people because the more affluent simply leave the state to get care.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 months ago

    So states can make up their own drug classifications as long as it’s for the worse? Why isn’t marijuanna recognized for it’s lower classification for states vs federally.

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      States legalizing it are doing so because the federal government is basically turning a blind eye to the supremacy clause on that topic (for the most part). States always have the right to be more restrictive than the federal government, but when they try to make laws less restrictive, it’s technically not on solid legal ground. That said, laws only matter when they are either enforced, or blindly followed.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    372·
    2 months ago

    this is what happens when fifty of the United States are allowed to have state laws override federal laws

    this will only get resolved when the individual states are made to follow one set of federal laws for everybody no matter which state they happen to be in

  • hahattpro@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago

    As a foreigner, i have hard time to understand why US go so hard on abortion pill.

    Is it religions or something ban it ?

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
      43·
      2 months ago

      It is power, under the guise of religion.

      Nothing satisfies fake Christians more than having power over everyone except themselves.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      Those failed states in the south are basically undeveloped countries, and religion is the only way their leaders can claim to be actually be superior to other states, so they can’t read or write or get decent jobs, but praise the lord they’re better ‘christians’.

      They used to have racism to let them know they were at least superior to black people, but we slowly took that away from them and they will never, ever forgive us.

    • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      no but the guise of religion may be there

      this is just like cannabis and immigrants and now women are on the list

      the more we criminalize the more citizens get put on the list such as probation

      criminals have to be papered and tracked and they have less rights makes them easier to handled and they already have a task force just for that called police that help keep us all in our proper places

  • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    The only feasible restriction should be to just keep them behind the pharmacy counter. Only to allow the pharmacist to advise on the best most effective and safest use.