Louisiana is about to become the first state to ban abortion medications as controlled substances, marking a stunning reversal from Louisiana’s history of being last in everything else, such as maternal health.
Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) is expected to sign a measure passed yesterday that would include mifepristone and misoprostol on the same list as Horse, China White, Sweet Lady H, and whatever the hell else heroin’s called in The Basketball Diaries.
Abortifacients have typically not been treated as controlled substances, due to their lack of addictive properties. However, it does appear possible that abortion medications could become habit-forming by acting on the brains of people terrified of raising a child in Louisiana.
(To wit, Louisiana Republicans also voted yesterday to deny lunch breaks to 16-year-old former fetuses even if they’re working more than five hours straight.)
Louisiana already banned every form of abortion other than to save a patient’s life or if the fetus is no longer viable (as a factory worker). Even children who are the victims of rape or incest are banned from having abortions because Louisiana.
