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Louisiana poised to reclassify abortion pills as controlled substances

Packages of mifepristone on display at a family planning clinic in Rockville, Maryland. © Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images, AFP

Republican lawmakers in the southern US state of Louisiana gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would criminalise possession of abortion pills without a prescription.

The legislation, passed 29-7 by the state senate and 64-29 in the state house, is the first in the country to classify the drugs as controlled and dangerous substances.

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