Important Takeaways:

• Thomas Pressly, R-Shreveport, submitted the legislation after his sister, a Texas resident, unknowingly consumed an abortion pill after her husband put it in her drink.
• A person caught with the drugs without a prescription could face up to five years in prison and have to pay a fine of up to $5,000.
• But the law couldn’t be used to prosecute a pregnant person who holds the drugs for their own use, even without a prescription
• The bill began as an effort to criminalize giving someone abortion drugs without their knowledge, and the reclassification was later added as an amendment.
• The new law creates the crime of “coerced criminal abortion.”

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