BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first @pulitzercenter StoryReach article for @IlluminatorLA lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/lou…
50 doctors signed a letter to the Louisiana Department of Health and Surgeon General Ralph Abraham asking for additional guidance, specifically “how to ensure [misoprostol] will be readily and quickly available in commonly used obstetric hemorrhage carts.”
“We’re trying to fix something that is not broken and that is absolutely safe,” said Dr. Stacey Holman, calling the law "an unnecessary barrier"
One OB-GYN I spoke with said it's been preemptively pulled off some postpartum carts already, and that there's "confusion and angst" among doctors worried about how this will affect inpatient care
A rural physician I spoke with hadn't even heard misoprostol was being reclassified. "What? That's death!" she said when I told her about the cart removal. She said pharmacies have already been "pushing back" when she prescribed the medication for miscarriages 
A reminder that doctors sounded the alarm about the reclassification of misoprostol and mifepristone back before the bill became law: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
More than 200 doctors signed a letter begging lawmakers to reconsider: jezebel.com/louisiana-doct…
By the time the bill got to the state senate it had national attention, with VP Kamala Harris weighing in: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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