Missouri AG’s Office Join Louisiana Lawsuit In Abortion Drug Disposal Allowances

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office has joined a 23-state coalition asking the Supreme Court to uphold the stay of a federal regulation removing the longstanding in-person dispensing requirement for the chemical abortion drug mifepristone.

The brief was filed in support of Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that expanded access to abortion drugs through mail and telehealth which created a loophole for out-of-state physicians to ignore state laws.

That rule, according to AG Hanaway, effectively permits states like California and New York to set abortion policy for pro-life states by enabling telehealth prescriptions which, otherwise, are prohibited by several states.