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 ACLU said the decision ‘has left the door open for extremist politicians to continue attacking medication abortion in his courtroom.’
‘As the world has become scarier and scarier, we realized we didn’t want to bring a child into that environment.’
The Trump administration is expected to pull back the current directive that requires emergency rooms to provide abortions when necessary to stabilize a woman’s health or life.
The new law reclassified the pills as “Schedule IV drugs,” putting them in the same category as the opioid tramadol and other substances that can be addictive.
It’s been an attempt to thread the divide between his base of anti-abortion supporters and the majority of Americans who support abortion rights.
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.’
‘States are on the frontlines of shaping the landscape of reproductive freedoms, and 2024 is the most important year yet to elect champions of reproductive care.’
