Daniella Silva is a national reporter for NBC News, focusing on immigration and education.
The Louisiana House approved a bill Tuesday that would add two medications commonly used to induce abortions to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, making possession of the drugs without valid prescriptions a crime punishable by fines, jail time or both.
Doctors and reproductive rights advocates have expressed alarm at the bill, which would make Louisiana the only state to categorize the two medications as controlled dangerous substances. “They are safe and effective, and they are not dangerous drugs of abuse to be on a schedule of a controlled dangerous substance list,” the director of the New Orleans Health Department, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, an emergency medicine physician, told NBC News on Tuesday.
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