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New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana

apnews.com Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill

An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor. Dr.

The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and opened the door for states to have strict anti-abortion laws.

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Under the legislation, if someone knowingly possesses mifepristone or misoprostol without a valid prescription for any purpose, they could be fined up to $5,000 and sent to jail for one to five years. The law carves out protections for pregnant women who obtain the drug without a prescription to take on their own.
Well what's the fucking point of the law then?
- To punish the women without actually saying they're going to punish the women.
  They basically want a situation where they can say "you are perfectly free to obtain this on your own" while making sure no doctor in their right mind would actually give it to you.
  
  That's the goal with transgender healthcare too. The Republicans have two purposes: (1) get richer by swindling people, and (2) make people they irrationally hate suffer. The notions of making anything better or serving the people don't even register on their radar.
  
  Yeah, "Daddy's home and he's taken off his belt".
  Republicans are very fucking weird. What kind of headspace is that? Daddy's home? WTAF.
  
  Are the drugs supposed to fall off accidentally from a plane, and pregnant women that need the drug just so happen to find a box on the ground?
  
  Pretty much, yeah.
  Saying they're going to punish women for abortions is a bridge too far even for some (key word: some) Republicans. All they care about is getting around the public relations headache that would come with penalizing pregnant women. Saying that pregnant women will not be penalized for obtaining these pills so long as they obtained them during a full moon on a Saturday between 3:00 and 3:00:01 AM in years where the final digit is even means that they can technically say that there are scenarios where pregnant women will not be penalized, and that technicality is all they care about. The fact that it would never, ever happen in a real world situation is irrelevant. It could. And to them, that's all that matters.
  
  They just need plausible deniability.
  
  It's going to be like trying to get one of those stamps for cannabis....
  According to the Marihuana Tax Act, importers had to register and pay $24 per annum in tax. Sellers had to purchase marijuana stamps but were arrested if they tried to buy any. It is also probable that very few, if any, stamps existed at that stage (they were made available during the 1940s).
  The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is widely misunderstood. In theory, it wasn’t a total prohibition of cannabis. Instead, it implemented a host of taxes, restrictions, and regulations that made it almost impossible to purchase or sell weed in practice.
  https://wayofleaf.com/cannabis/education/history-of-the-marihuana-tax-act/
  
  Pharmacy robbery is then, we go in, grab the pills and get out. Clean easy and quick.
  
  And when the current supply runs out? Do you think these pills make themselves?

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