President Biden’s re-election campaign is criticizing former President Trump for a bill proposed in Louisiana that would criminalize possession of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
In a statement first shared with The Hill by the Biden campaign, Caitlin Joshua, a Louisiana native who was turned away by two emergency rooms and denied reproductive health care while experiencing a miscarriage, slammed the former president. .
“This is an implementation of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda to criminalize women’s reproductive health care,” Joshua said. “This should be a wake-up call to every woman across the country. MAGA Republicans want to ban and criminalize abortion pills everywhere.”
Pelican’s proposal would add mifepristone and misoprostol to the list of controlled dangerous substances, which could lead to a 10-year prison sentence for someone caught in possession of them in Louisiana. Local media reported. Reported by WWNO.
Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban does not include exceptions for rape and incest, which the state’s Democratic Party is currently contesting. The only exceptions are certain conditions of the fetus or when the life of the pregnant mother is at risk. And the ban includes 15 years in prison and up to $200,000 in fines if doctors violate the law.
“Donald Trump’s extreme abortion ban in Louisiana and the reversal of Roe v. Wade could have cost me my life,” Joshua added in a statement. “What is happening in Louisiana was enabled by Donald Trump and will threaten the lives of many more women like me. We have to stop him.”
The Biden campaign also launched a seven-figure ad campaign on Thursday that focused on President Trump’s recent comments to Time magazine, in which he accused Trump of monitoring women’s pregnancies or of those who had illegal abortions. He said the state should decide whether to prosecute.
The campaign is targeting restrictive abortion bans in other states and linking the former president to other states in hopes that abortion will boost Democratic turnout on the November ballot.
Vice President Harris traveled to Florida on Wednesday to slam President Trump after the state’s six-week abortion ban went into effect.
Last month, she traveled to Arizona to punch the former president just days after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning Kamala Harris from performing.
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