The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth prescriptions, report finds
The U.S. Supreme Court last year found that anti-abortion doctors and their organizations didn’t have standing.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year found that anti-abortion doctors and their organizations didn’t have standing.
Louisiana, which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, became the first state last year to heighten the classification of the two pills.
The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to another state.
The state has reclassified the pills as ‘Schedule IV drugs,’ putting them in the same category as the opioid tramadol and other substances that can be addictive.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, an abortion rights supporter now running for Governor, didn’t defend the restrictions in court because he already contended they were preempted by the FDA’s decisions.
‘There’s a reason we rank at the bottom in terms of maternal health outcomes, and this is why.’