Louisiana Becomes First State to Make Abortion Drugs Controlled Substances

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday signed a first-in-the-nation bill designating the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances, requiring a prescription to obtain them and making their use on an unsuspecting mother a crime. Mr. Landry signed the bill (SB 276) into law on May 24, a day after it cleared the Louisiana Senate and was sent to his desk for what was widely expected to be quick action. “Requiring an abortion inducing drug to be obtained with a prescription and criminalizing the use of an abortion drug on an unsuspecting mother is nothing short of common sense,” Mr. Landry said in a statement. “This bill protects women across Louisiana and I was proud to sign this bill into law today.”...