Oops: Cat at Center of JD Vance’s Pet-Eating Claims Is Alive and Well

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Today in the horrifying effects of antiabortion laws

In Louisiana’s rush to criminalize the possession of abortion medicine, GOP lawmakers may end up killing new mothers. Per The Washington Post:

Staff in some Louisiana hospitals are doing timed drills, sprinting from patient rooms and through halls to the locked medicine closets where the drugs used for abortions, incomplete miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging will have to be kept—as newly categorized controlled substances—starting Oct. 1. That’s hardly the only preparation taking place across the state as a law targeting mifepristone and misoprostol, the first of its kind in the country, goes into effect in two weeks.

Pharmacists are still trying to decipher guidance from state officials about the two drugs and the diagnosis codes that will be required before prescriptions for them can be filled. And they and doctors are speaking out about the extra layers of difficulty expected because of the law, which they worry will put patients experiencing serious pregnancy-related complications at even greater risk.

In addition to inducing abortions, misoprostol is also used, among other things, to stop postpartum hemorrhages, which just so happen to be a leading cause of maternal mortality in Louisiana.

“It adds a few minutes,” Jennifer Avegno, director of the New Orleans Health Department, told the Post of the upcoming restrictions on the drug. “Most patients would likely make it. But I’ve seen myself what can happen when someone is bleeding out from a miscarriage. And a few minutes could mean life and death in some cases.”

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