Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists in Louisiana have a new idea for how to curb access to the procedure: classifying abortion pills as controlled substances. And it could be copied by other states eager to thwart the common abortion method.
“I wish I would have thought of it,” said James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee and a conservative lawyer largely credited with engineering the strategy to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The state House of Representatives in Louisiana, which already prohibits abortion, passed a bill on Tuesday to add further restrictions to abortion pills by legally grouping them with schedule IV controlled substances like Xanax, Valium, Ambien and Rohypnol (commonly known as roofies), all of which can be highly addictive.