Louisiana became the first state to make it a crime to possess the two main US abortion pills without a prescription, after a new law added mifepristone and misoprostol to the list of controlled substances like highly addictive narcotics.
Apparently it’s still going to be legal to possess them with a prescription, but can doctors in Louisiana write such a prescription?
about 0.3% of people who used mifepristone to end a pregnancy experienced a major complication, meaning they required hospitalization, surgery or a blood transfusion. Surgical abortions done in the first trimester of pregnancy, by comparison, resulted in major complications 0.16% of the time
These pills are more dangerous than a surgical abortion? That’s not what I would have expected.
Apparently it’s still going to be legal to possess them with a prescription, but can doctors in Louisiana write such a prescription?
These pills are more dangerous than a surgical abortion? That’s not what I would have expected.