Texas May Be Next State to Restrict Abortion Pills as "Controlled Substances"

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Source: Mother Jones

12 hours ago


Last month, Louisiana became the first state to begin classifying misoprostol and mifepristone—the two pills used in medication abortion—as schedule IV controlled substances.

The move, driven by anti-abortion Republicans and unsupported by evidence, left the state’s doctors bracing for the worst—the pills also are used to manage miscarriages and treat postpartum hemorrhages, and the new law requires they be locked away with other narcotics, potentially wasting precious minutes in an emergency. Hundreds of Louisiana doctors opposed the law, and one of them, Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, a board-certified OB-GYN in New Orleans, told me she feared other states would follow.

That fear may now come to pass: Pat Curry, a Republican lawmaker in Texas, pre-filed a bill in the state legislature this week that would classify the two drugs as schedule IV substances there. The next legislative session does not begin until January 14—if passed, the bill would take effect in September 2025. Curry did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from Mother Jones on Sunday, and appeared to block me from messaging him further after I inquired about the bill.

The news, which appears to have first been reported by the Louisiana Illuminator, is just the latest example of right-wing attacks on abortion pills. Project 2025, the extremist guidebook to a second Trump term, recommends that the Department of Justice invoke the 19th-century Comstock Act to prosecute providers of abortion pills, as I have previously reported. It also recommends that the Food and Drug Administration revoke its approval of abortion pills. Conservative attorneys general in three states are trying to revive a US Supreme Court case seeking to restrict access to mifepristone after the justices unanimously dismissed it earlier this year. And as the Guardian reported on Sunday, anti-abortion advocates hope to outlaw abortion pills nationwide during Trump’s next term.

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/louisiana-texas-bill-regulate-abortion-pills-controlled-substance-misoprostol-mifepristone/

[StopTheNeoCons]

1. I hate living in texass, want to move to New Mexico...nt

[Paladin]

2. The correct spelling is "Texas."

And you and the other resident DU Texas haters need to stash the blanket trashing of my state, because you're not entitled to it anymore---not after the way this last election turned out. Feel free to direct your venom at the entire United States of America, instead.

Lotsa luck in New Mexico.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

3. Texas state government is a cesspool of hatred

I think most Texans, like me, are sick and extremely disgusted what the State of Texas has turned into.due to Republicans.

Freedom? In Texas?

No. Just Republicans taking away freedoms from Texans.

[Paladin]

7. Trust me: I'm just as sick and disgusted as you are about things in Texas.

But the Nazis are demonstrating in Ohio. They're trying to do away with COVID vaccines in Idaho. And Florida has provided Matt Gaetz as trump's new attorney general candidate. The era of designating Texas as the worst place in the country ought to be a thing of the past.

[Marthe48]

4. How odd that anyone can smoke pot

but women can't get birth control

[BumRushDaShow]

5. I expect they may come back to that at some point

The stage was set to reschedule and they'll just reverse it.

[Marthe48]

6. Maybe the rest of us

should be as human as possible. Carouse, indulge, get away with all we can. The christofascists can't watch and catch us all.

It'll all go back underground, making all of us hypocrites.