Important Takeaways:
- Two abortion medications will become controlled substances in Louisiana after state lawmakers voted Thursday to send a bill to Gov. Jeff Landry’s desk.
- A person in Louisiana caught with mifepristone or misoprostol without a prescription could face up to 10 years in prison.
- Louisiana, which has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates, will be the first state to classify the medications as Schedule IV drugs.
- Vice President Kamala Harris called the bill “unconscionable” on X when it cleared the state House of Representatives on Tuesday.
- “Let’s be clear,” she wrote, “Donald Trump did this.”
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