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Democrats make election-year push to undo ban on mailed abortion pills

Democrats are bringing an 1873 law that bans the mailing of abortion-related materials into the spotlight as the party makes access to the procedure central to their election messaging. The Comstock Act was enacted to ban people from sending anything “obscene, lewd or lascivious” in the mail, including “any article or thing designed or intended […]

Dem Governors Stockpile Abortion Pills in ‘Resistance to Trump Admin’

Some Democratic governors are stockpiling abortion pills in case former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, despite Trump saying abortion should be left to the states. The Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) overturning of safety regulations on mifepristone, the first drug used in a […]

Illegal Alien Accused of Murder After Selling Victim Fentanyl Pills

An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who was deported from the United States in 2016 is facing murder charges after selling fentanyl pills to a 45-year-old man in Las Vegas, Nevada, that resulted in his death. Jorge Miranda, a 46-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, Indicted He was convicted by a Clark County grand […]

Louisiana Makes Forcing Abortion Pills on Pregnant Women a Crime

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (Republican) Signed On Friday, the first bill to make it a crime to administer abortion pills to unsuspecting pregnant women was passed. law, SB276It also classifies two drugs used in medication abortions, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled substances, putting them in the same category as opioids and other dangerous drugs. Jeff […]

New Louisiana Bill To Treat Abortion Pills As Controlled Substance, Imposes Strict Penalties

Louisiana lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would reclassify abortion pills as controlled substances, NBC News reported. Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill that would classify mifepristone and misoprostol, drugs commonly used in medical abortions, as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances. according to Go to NBC News. The decision is in line with Louisiana’s tough stance […]

Louisiana Senate moves to classify some abortion pills as ‘controlled dangerous substances’

Louisiana is moving forward with legislation that would classify the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled dangerous substances, threatening to criminalize those who possess the medication without a prescription. Lawmakers in the state added the measure as a last-minute amendment to another Senate bill, which criminalizes “coerced criminal abortion,” in which someone gives a […]

Mail-order abortion pills safe and effective: Study

Medicinal abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) are effective and have a low risk of serious adverse events when mailed to patients, a new study shows. The study was published in a peer-reviewed publication on Monday JAMA Internal Medicinelooks at the experiences of more than 500 people who wanted to end their pregnancies between January 2020 […]