Lawsuit challenges Louisiana’s unprecedented law classifying abortion drugs as controlled substances

Background: FILE - The rear view on Chartres Street of the newly renovated home of the Louisiana Supreme Court located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, May 10, 2004. Louisiana’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of legislation that gives victims of childhood sexual abuse a renewed chance to file lawsuits after the usual time limits for such suits has expired (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File). Inset: Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women

Background: FILE – The rear view on Chartres Street of the newly renovated home of the Louisiana Supreme Court located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, May 10, 2004. Louisiana’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of legislation that gives victims of childhood sexual abuse a renewed chance to file lawsuits after the usual time limits for such suits has expired (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File). Inset: Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

A group of Louisiana health care providers and reproductive rights advocates are challenging the state’s unprecedented action of classifying abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol to the state’s list of controlled substances.

Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed Louisiana Act 246 into law in May — a choice which effectuated the most extreme legal action yet taken on the drugs. Under the law, the two medications, which have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for more than two decades, are now classified as Schedule IV drugs. The classification puts mifepristone and misoprostol on part with certain painkillers and mood-altering medications that merit greater oversight due to their potential for abuse or dependence.

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