{"id":3872,"date":"2026-05-07T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:07:31","slug":"misoprostol-could-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/misoprostol-could-be-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Misoprostol Could Be Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although untouched by the Fifth Circuit\u2019s ruling, misoprostol is not necessarily immune to legal attacks. Louisiana\u2019s lawsuit and parallel suits filed by Florida and Missouri argue that the Comstock Act\u2014a dormant, 19th-century anti-obscenity statute that anti-abortion legal strategists have spent years working to resurrect<\/a>\u2014bars the mailing of any drug used to induce abortion. This reading would apply to misoprostol just as readily as to mifepristone. … In 2024, Louisiana became the first state to classify both mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled dangerous substances, a designation that requires prescribing clinicians to acquire special licensure from the state and mandates that facilities store the drugs under lock and key. All prescriptions must be tracked through a state database, and anyone possessing the pills without a valid prescription faces fines or jail time.<\/p>\n

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Although untouched by the Fifth Circuit\u2019s ruling, misoprostol is not necessarily immune to legal attacks. Louisiana\u2019s lawsuit and parallel suits filed by Florida and Missouri argue that the Comstock Act\u2014a dormant, 19th-century anti-obscenity statute that anti-abortion legal strategists have spent years working to resurrect\u2014bars the mailing of any drug used to induce abortion. This reading … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,172,146,362,60,4,352,463,15,177,10],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5th-circuit","tag-abortion-bans","tag-comstock-act","tag-controlled-substances","tag-kentucky","tag-louisiana","tag-miscarriage-management","tag-misoprostol","tag-missouri","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}