The Biden campaign slammed Donald Trump over a Louisiana bill criminating medication abortion.
It also criminalizes a person giving a pregnant woman abortion pills without consent, however, a pregnant woman who obtains the medications “for her own consumption” would not face criminal charges.
“We only have to look around to see the chaos and the cruelty playing out all across the country that Donald Trump created by overturningand unleashing really extreme abortion bans,” former New Orleans Mayor and Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu told reporters during a press call Thursday morning. “And now you can see draconian legislation that is actually threatening the lives and the health of women from Florida to Ohio to Idaho to a number of states and now into Louisiana.
“What SB 276 does is it classifies mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled dangerous substances, which is why wildly inappropriate in terms of what these drugs actually do and are used for,” Schilling added. “But they would then be subject to monitoring and tracking the same as opioids are for example. So the state has a database of who is prescribing and who is receiving controlled dangerous substances and these drugs would then be added to that.
During Thursday’s press call, Baton Rouge resident Kaitlyn Joshua shared her experience of being turned away from two emergency rooms as she dealt with a miscarriage.
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