The two drugs used in medication abortion are officially controlled substances in Louisiana after a law took effect that criminalizes their possession without a prescription. The first-of-its-kind law reclassified mifepristone and misoprostol as Schedule IV controlled substances,

Two drugs used in pregnancy care are now under lock and key in Louisiana after a new law took effect Tuesday. The drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, are used for abortions, but are also routinely used to manage miscarriages,

Back in May, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law reclassifying the abortion drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol as controlled, dangerous substances in Louisiana. “There’s been a lot of misinformation around this country,

Louisiana hospitals have locked up a key drug used to stop women from bleeding out after giving birth as a new state law takes effect Tuesday.

"It's really a dangerous slippery slope when we have legislation that interferes with what we know to be evidence-based medicine."

Louisiana’s first-in-the-nation law listing the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol as “controlled dangerous substances” took effect Tuesday, triggering fears among health-care providers and pharmacists that routine care may be worsened for women in the state.

Under the new law, the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol will be designated as Schedule IV controlled substances.

Louisiana will become the first in the United States on Tuesday to categorize two widely used abortion-inducing pills as “controlled dangerous substances.”

In another blow to reproductive healthcare freedom in Republican states, Louisiana has reclassified the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV controlled substances, which come with prison terms of up to five years for those caught in possession without a prescription.