The chilling motive behind Louisiana’s new abortion pill bill

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Mary Ziegler is a law professor at the University of California, Davis, School of Law and the author of 'Roe: The History of a National Obsession.'

UPDATE : The Louisiana state House passed SB276, which would designate mifepristone and misoprostol as Schedule IV drugs under the state’s “Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law.” The bill now returns to the state Senate. The state of Louisiana has criminalized virtually all abortions from the moment of fertilization since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Antiabortion groups have vowed — in the face of dissension from so-called antiabortion abolitionists — not to punish women. Physicians, for their part, often prove unwilling to run the grievous legal risk involved in violating a criminal ban. That leaves others willing to help patients. This bill gives prosecutors a new tool: If anyone possesses mifepristone or misoprostol without a prescription, it does not matter whether they ever perform an abortion.

 

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