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#misoprostol

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Importantly, there is no scientific reason to restrict #mifepristone and #misoprostol in this manner... these medications are nonaddictive & extremely safe — as safe or safer than commonly prescribed drugs such as penicillin and Viagra. And their benefits are lifesaving...

This #law is a warning call of what is to come...

All of these #antiabortion efforts, cloaked in the guise of patient safety, do nothing but put patients’ lives at risk."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

Text from article: Importantly, there is no scientific reason to restrict mifepristone and misoprostol in this manner. Unlike other drugs designated as dangerous controlled substances, these medications are nonaddictive and extremely safe — as safe or safer than commonly prescribed drugs such as penicillin and Viagra. And their benefits are lifesaving when administered in a timely manner. This law is a warning call of what is to come. It is part of a national, antiabortion strategy to discredit these medications as unsafe despite copious evidence to the contrary. Attorneys general from three conservative states just reignited a lawsuit — rejected last term by the Supreme Court — that attempts to reimpose sweeping restrictions on mifepristone. All of these antiabortion efforts, cloaked in the guise of patient safety, do nothing but put patients’ lives at risk.
#Health#Politics#News
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Two medications, #mifepristone and #misoprostol, are commonly known as the FDA-approved drug regimen for medication #abortion, but they are also lifesaving drugs used for #pregnancy complications. #Doctors rely on one or both of them to stop postpartum hemorrhage and to manage miscarriages, as well as to induce labor."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

News headline: Opinion Louisiana’s new law on abortion pills is a warning call Louisiana has classified life-saving drugs as “dangerous controlled substances.”
#Health#Healthcare#WomensRights
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William Lindsey :toad:

"This is always how the anti-abortion movement operates. It’s palatable, and been historically successful, for those activists and allied politicians to paint abortion as a singular, siloed-off procedure that exists only in Planned Parenthood clinics. It’s easy, then, to demonize the supposed distinct set of women (and differently identifying people) who use those services too."

~ Kate Riga

#Republicans #abortion #women #ReproductiveRights #misoprostol #Louisiana
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TPM – Talking Points Memo · Louisiana Offers Up More Women’s Bodies In Its Quest To Ban All Things Abortion-RelatedAnti-abortion activists have been attacking mifepristone for decades. That mission has resulted in unnecessary restrictions on the abortion drug, renewed state legislative pushes to make it less…
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William Lindsey :toad:

"It is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medications, a list containing those medications that are the most effective and safe to meet a health care system’s most important needs. After antiabortion activists targeted the drug, Louisiana governor Jeff Landry signed a law reclassifying it as a controlled dangerous substance. The reclassification means that the drug will no longer be easily available on obstetric hemorrhage carts."

#abortion #misoprostol #Louisiana
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William Lindsey :toad:

"On October 1, in Louisiana, a law will go into effect that reclassified the drug misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. Misoprostol can be used for abortion. It is also used for routine reproductive care and during medical emergencies to treat postpartum hemorrhage."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Republicans #abortion #healthcare #women #ReproductiveRights #misoprostol #Louisiana
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Letters from an American · September 3, 2024 By Heather Cox Richardson
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Some hospitals have already preemptively pulled #misoprostol from their obstetric hemorrhage carts and kits...

“The physician community that I work within is certainly anxious about what the changes to the normal process will be,” said Dr. Stacey Holman...

She added how “frustrating” it is that it’s become routine in #Louisiana to have an unclear #law attempting to dictate #medical practice creating stress on #healthcare providers."
lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l

Text from article: Some hospitals have already preemptively pulled misoprostol from their obstetric hemorrhage carts and kits because controlled dangerous substances need to be stored and accessed differently from other medications. “It is causing a lot of confusion and angst just not understanding, just not knowing — they’re still trying to figure out what to do,” said an OB-GYN who asked that her name not be used because she had not received clearance from her hospital. She said she’s heard of the medication being pulled off carts at some hospitals. “The physician community that I work within is certainly anxious about what the changes to the normal process will be,” said Dr. Stacey Holman, division director at Touro’s maternal child services. She added how “frustrating” it is that it’s become routine in Louisiana to have an unclear law attempting to dictate medical practice creating stress on health care providers. “It’s an unnecessary barrier and really critical to the regular everyday care that we provide to our patients,” she said. “We’re trying to fix something that is not broken and that is absolutely safe,” Holman said.
#Women#Health#WomensHealth
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"In May, Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation reclassifying #misoprostol and #mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances, despite more than 200 #doctors signing a letter against the measure. The law goes into effect on Oct. 1, and doctors and pharmacists are scrambling to come up with postpartum hemorrhage policies that will comply with the #law while still providing proper medical care for #women."
lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l

Louisiana Illuminator · Doctors grapple with how to save women's lives amid 'confusion and angst' over new Louisiana law • Louisiana IlluminatorUnder a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most widely used life-saving medications for pregnant women.
#Health#WomensHealth#Healthcare
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Misoprostol is prescribed in a number of medical scenarios — it’s an essential part of reproductive #healthcare that can be used during emergencies...

But because it is used for #abortion, #misoprostol has been targeted by conservatives in #Louisiana — an unprecedented move for a medication that routinely saves lives. A controlled dangerous substance has extra barriers for access, which can delay care."
lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l

Text from article: The Louisiana Illuminator spoke with several doctors across the state that voiced extreme concern about how the rescheduling of misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance will impact inpatient care at hospitals. Misoprostol is prescribed in a number of medical scenarios — it’s an essential part of reproductive health care that can be used during emergencies, as well as for miscarriage treatment, labor induction, or intrauterine device (IUD) insertion. But because it is used for abortion, misoprostol has been targeted by conservatives in Louisiana — an unprecedented move for a medication that routinely saves lives. A controlled dangerous substance has extra barriers for access, which can delay care. “My fear is that someone could eventually die,” said Dr. Tara Morse, an OB-GYN who practices at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. “And that’s not why we all went into medicine. Our goal is to prevent everything and be able to use every drug at our disposal.” Every hospital has its own system for obstetric hemorrhage care. Some use rolling carts or kits in birthing rooms with easily accessible medications and equipment in case of hemorrhage after delivery. Misoprostol is a pill often used in early stages of post-delivery bleeding, especially for patients with hypertension or asthma who might have adverse side effects from using other hemorrhage medications that are usually administered by needles or an IV. ...
#Women#WomensHealth#Health
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

Fucking murdering morons

These "pro-life" theofascist shitbags are murdering #women

They don't know, don't care

#Misoprostol might be used for #abortion

So they just yank it out of emergency rooms

Even though it's used in postpartum hemorrhaging and other emergencies

It's like forcing people to endure surgery in writhing pain without fentanyl, because someone might use fentanyl illicitly

Regardless of abortion being legal or not (and it should be legal)

Morons!

lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l

Louisiana Illuminator · Doctors grapple with how to save women's lives amid 'confusion and angst' over new Louisiana law • Louisiana IlluminatorUnder a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most widely used life-saving medications for pregnant women.
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Because a president has enormous power to influence federal agencies that oversee abortion policy, a potential Trump administration could unilaterally choose to do what the Supreme Court did not: impose strict restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs used in over 60 percent of abortions — or even move to take the drug off the market entirely."

~ Caroline Kitchener and Michael Scherer

#SupremeCourt #abortion #mifepristone #misoprostol
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washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · After ruling, the future of abortion pills rests with Biden or TrumpBy Caroline Kitchener
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William Lindsey :toad:

"A cynical person might think that the conservative Justices (who routinely ignore ‘standing’ doctrine when it suits them) did this to keep the entire issue of reproductive rights out of the election cycle (where vast majority reject what they are doing), so they can take a hatchet to them after November."

~ Andrew Weissmann as quoted by Chris Walker

#SupremeCourt #abortion #mifepristone #misoprostol
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truthout.org/articles/scotus-b

Truthout · Supreme Court Blocks Mifepristone Challenge, Keeping Abortion Medication Legal, for NowThe High Court ruled that the challengers to the FDA approval of mifepristone lacked standing to make their case.
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William Lindsey :toad:

"They have made themselves—and therefore, by extension, Trumpism—seem 'reasonable' on the matter of abortion in an election year in which their patron Trump is on the ballot and they very much need the abortion issue not to harm him politically; they have bought themselves more time to get to see the back of Justice Sotomayor…."

~ Seth Abramson

#SupremeCourt #abortion #mifepristone #misoprostol
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Proof · Why a Unanimous Supreme Court Decision Protecting Access to Abortion Medication Mifepristone Means Less Than You ThinkBy Seth Abramson
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The Supreme Court today unanimously decided that the antiabortion groups trying to get the drug mifepristone banned did not have standing to bring the case. This preserves access to mifepristone, commonly used to induce medical abortions, but as legal observers point out, the court ruled only on standing, meaning that others, who do have standing, could bring a similar case."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#SupremeCourt #abortion #mifepristone #misoprostol
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Letters from an American · June 13, 2024By Heather Cox Richardson
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Nonilex

By classifying #Abortion pills #mifepristone & #misoprostol as #ScheduleIVDrugs —a category of medicines w/potential for #DrugAbuse or #DrugDependence ( #addiction ) that includes Ambien, Valium, Xanax, & others— lawmakers in #Louisiana say they aim to curb the *illicit distribution* of the drugs. But the #FDA does not consider the 2 #medications to have any potential for abuse or dependence, & yrs of research overwhelmingly show both pills to be #safe.

#law#MaleSupremacy#ChristianRight
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