A group of health care providers and two Louisiana women who were denied abortion care are suing state officials to block a new law that makes common pregnancy medications controlled dangerous ...

(Reuters) - A group of healthcare providers and others on Thursday sued Louisiana in an effort to block a law that classified mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in medication abortion, as ...

Mifepristone is one of two medications used for a medication abortion. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive health care ...

A bill that is expected to pass would impose prison time and thousands of dollars in fines on people possessing the pills without a prescription. By Pam Belluck and Emily Cochrane Louisiana could ...

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. The New Orleans Health Department has launched its investigation into whether ...

On July 16, 2025, President Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (“HALT Fentanyl”) Act into law. The law permanently reclassifies “fentanyl-related substances” into Schedule I of ...

Outlawing abortion is only a first step for some conservative lawmakers, who keep dreaming up increasingly invasive schemes to ferret out and punish anyone trying to circumvent these bans. The latest ...

LAW LISTING TWO MAIN ABORTION MEDICATIONS MIFEPRISTONE AND MISOPROSTOL, AS CONTROLLED, DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES. IT IS NOW IN EFFECT TODAY. WDSU REPORTER SHAY O’CONNOR BREAKS DOWN HOW THIS NEW LEGISLATION ...

Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive health care to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, a move that has alarmed doctors in the state.