Louisiana house passes extreme anti birth control bill.

Every minute Congress fails to act in protecting the unfettered access to all aspects of pregnancy health care is a failure.

At least half of congress supports this shit.

This is beyond the pale and it's frustrating how Americans are literally not going to do shit about things getting worse

I hate to be that guy, but the article says abortion pills without a valid prescription

red states are shit holes and the people keep electing fascists

... I fail to see the problem? As far as I can tell the bill basically exists to make sure only people who are supposed to have abortion inducing medications will have them. Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% pro-choice give that shit out the way they do condoms as far as I'm concerned, but the origin of the bill was because a dude spiked his wife's drink with abortion inducing medication when she didn't want to terminate a pregnancy. Which is a fucking horrifying thought on many, many levels. If a pregnant person wants this kind of medication then give it to her, full stop, but for damn sure there's no reason for not-pregnant people to have it.

And yes, I realize the potential to abuse this is valid. That's true of everything . My point is more that its super easy to dogpile red states for doing dumb shit but this seems pretty valid actually.

Medical professionals have spoken out against the measure, saying the medications have critical uses outside of abortion care, including aiding in labor and delivery, treating miscarriage and preventing gastrointestinal ulcers.

but the origin of the bill was because a dude spiked his wife's drink with abortion inducing medication when she didn't want to terminate a pregnancy.

Ok but all of those are still valid reasons to have a prescription.

The guy that got 100 days while women and doctors get 100 years?

You're assuming they intend to enforce this like a legitimate law and not the cartoon villain horseshit they've been doing this entire time.

That doesn't negate the fact that if applied properly it helps protect women.

Corruption of the system does not mean the system is broken, it means the people applying it are.

You're not wrong, man. Trust me, I know that. Here's the thing: If a bad person does a good thing we need to be glad they did a good thing and run with it. If they then try to use that good thing to do more bad things THAT is when we need to raise hell and stop them. By all means, let them do good things.

I'm not convinced this is a good thing, for the record. I just fail to see how its a bad thing on the face of it so far. I am positive, given the chance, they'll use it to hurt women. That doesn't negate the fact that if applied properly it helps protect women.

IMO the burden of proof should be the other way around. I.e., everything out of a GOP legislature is axiomatically evil until proven otherwise, and there is no such proof here, only wishful thinking.

At least it's not regular birth control pills and condoms being banned. That's what I thought this was going to be about.

I hate to be that guy, but the article says abortion pills without a valid prescription

Do you guys seriously think I was arguing for it?

I was simply saying what was happening.

Every minute Congress fails to act in protecting the unfettered access to all aspects of pregnancy health care is a failure.

Signed into law.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-law-abortion-pills-controlled-dangerous-substances-rcna153937

Signed into law.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-law-abortion-pills-controlled-dangerous-substances-rcna153937

Garbage fucking state