Louisiana moves to outlaw mail-order abortion drugs

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A proposed legislation to forestall Louisiana girls from getting abortion-inducing medicine by mail received remaining passage within the state’s Legislature on Friday.

The state Senate voted 31-1 to approve Home modifications to the invoice by Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican.

Hewitt harassed throughout temporary remarks to the Senate Friday that the invoice doesn’t penalize girls who search abortions. The invoice additionally states that contraceptive medicine and gadgets, together with medicine generally known as “morning-after” drugs and different emergency contraceptives used after sexual activity, will not be thought of abortion-inducing medicine underneath the legislation.

The invoice requires that abortion-inducing medicine in Louisiana can solely be administered in individual by a state-licensed doctor.

Barring an surprising veto from Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who opposes authorized abortion, the invoice will grow to be legislation on Aug. 1.

Penalties for violating the legislation embrace jail sentences of 1 to 5 years.

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