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Louisiana First in US to Make Possessing Abortion Pills a Crime

  • Mifepristone, misoprostol become controlled substances Oct. 1
  • Governor signs bill to expand state’s abortion restrictions
Mifepristone and misoprostol tablets.

Photographer: Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Getty Images

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Louisiana became the first state to make it a crime to possess the two main US abortion pills without a prescription, after a new law added mifepristone and misoprostol to the list of controlled substances like highly addictive narcotics.

Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican who opposes abortion access, said in a social-media post Friday that he’d signed the bill into law, just a day after the state Senate passed a bill by a 29 to 7 vote. The law goes into effect Oct. 1.