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Docs Concerned State's Abortion Pill Law Could Have Catastrophic Effects

— Louisiana set to become the first state to classify abortion pills as controlled substances

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A photo of bottles of abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa.

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