Abortion-Inducing Drugs Could Face Restrictions in Mississippi
Mississippi could restrict the use of abortion-inducing drugs and make women visit a physician an additional time after using them.
Senate Bill 2795 also would restrict a woman from taking the pills to seven weeks after their last menstruation. Many doctors now prescribe the medicine up to nine weeks into a pregnancy.
The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee approved the measure Tuesday, sponsored by Sen. Angela Burks Hill, R-Picayune. It goes to the full Senate for more debate.
A companion measure died Tuesday in a House committee without a vote, along with almost three-quarters of all general bills. Tuesday was the deadline for committee action in the side where a bill was introduced.
According to bill-tracking service Statewatch, 2,269 general bills in the House and Senate were winnowed down to 592 survivors. There are later deadlines for bills that deal with taxes and spending.
Hill’s measure says physicians can only prescribe the abortion-inducing drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, according to directions from the Food and Drug Administration. They couldn’t give “off-label” instructions that differ from those approved by the FDA.
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