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groundloop

(12,383 posts)
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 08:10 AM Oct 1

Doctors issue stark warning as Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills

Source: The Guardian

Two common abortion pills are, as of Tuesday, classified as “controlled substances” in Louisiana, due to a first-of-its-kind law that medical professionals warn will endanger the lives of women by restricting medication used to treat postpartum hemorrhage and other conditions.

Louisiana, which already bans abortion, passed a law reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV drugs – a designation typically reserved for drugs that carry a risk of abuse or dependence. People caught with the drugs without a valid prescription could face up to five years in prison, although pregnant women who procure it for their own use are exempted from punishment under the law.

Although the drugs are typically used in US medication abortions, they are also regularly used in an array of other circumstances, such as to help with miscarriage management, treat ulcers and soften the cervix during labor and other procedures.

Normally, at the Louisiana hospital where OB-GYN Dr Nicole Freehill works, misoprostol is kept in so-called hemorrhage carts, which can be easily wheeled into the rooms where patients deliver babies and which carry medications normally used to treat hemorrhaging, including misoprostol. It takes about 15 seconds to pull the misoprostol out of the cart, Freehill said.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/louisiana-abortion-pills

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Old Crank

(4,864 posts)
1. Just F.... ridiculous
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 09:04 AM
Oct 1

and dangerous.
The medications will have to be pulled from the carts in hospitals as a precaution.
Further endangering women who will have to wait until they can get it from the pharmacy.

evolves

(5,597 posts)
2. This will be a disaster.
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 09:11 AM
Oct 1

As an OB/Gyn, I use this medication all the time in cesarean deliveries to treat hemorrhage. Without it, we lose valuable time and patients lose more blood.

It’s time we STOP letting legislators practice medicine.

Delphinus

(12,153 posts)
12. I have
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 05:51 PM
Oct 1

said for years that legislators should not interfere - it's like the insurance companies stepping in and saying, no, you don't really need this life-saving procedure.

Attilatheblond

(4,499 posts)
9. It's not oxi, heroin, Fentanyl .... what the f is this Schedule IV bullshit? Who would possible abuse/ become dependent?
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 12:27 PM
Oct 1
Louisiana, which already bans abortion, passed a law reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV drugs – a designation typically reserved for drugs that carry a risk of abuse or dependence.


Beginning to think the idiot pols are actively trying to kill women. Do they think men will vote for them if they kill wives off so the men can get new ones?

Women are NOT disposable and legislators who pull stunts like this should be charged with practicing medicine without license. When women die due to it taking longer to get them the needed meds, the pols should be up on manslaughter charges.

flying_wahini

(8,043 posts)
10. I would bet you that SarahFuckabee has had Mifepristone or Pitocin during/after her multiple births.
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 01:09 PM
Oct 1

This is really a travesty of justice. Pregnant women there NEED to set up a Dr. out of State that they can get to help within a few hours.
Women are gonna die over this.
Sarah has now proven she is just a POS
LIke her Daddy; Say anything to get in office and then pull up the ladder on other women.

orleans

(35,203 posts)
11. sounds to me like cialis and viagra belong in the classification of
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 04:54 PM
Oct 1

schedule IV since those e.d. pills probably "carry a risk of abuse or dependence"

Bettie

(17,382 posts)
13. They don't care if women die
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 05:52 PM
Oct 1

the proponents of this will declare that it is "god's will" and that the women were punished for their "sins".

Right wing religion is a hell of a drug.

ck4829

(36,106 posts)
15. Shouldn't this mean that viagra should also be a schedule IV drug?
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 09:17 AM
Oct 9

When do we ban Viagra?

SCOTUS is hearing arguments to ban Mifepristone b/c “FDA failed to address concerns about whether the drug is safe for women.”

Mifepristone reports 5 deaths per 1M people who use it—a death rate of 0.0005%.

Viagra has a 15X greater death rate.

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