President Biden’s re-election campaign blames former President Trump for a proposed bill in Louisiana that would criminalize possession of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol.
In a statement first shared with The Hill from the Biden campaign, Louisiana native Kaitlyn Joshua, who was turned away from two emergency rooms and denied access to reproductive health care while suffering a miscarriage, criticized the former president .
“This is Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda in action: criminalizing women’s reproductive health care,” Joshua said. “This should ring alarm bells for every woman across the country – MAGA Republicans want to ban and criminalize abortion medication everywhere.”
The Pelican State proposal would add mifepristone and misoprostol to the list of controlled dangerous substances, and if someone in Louisiana was caught with them, it could lead to 10 years in prison, the local agency said. WWNO reported.
Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban does not include exceptions for rape or incest, which are exceptions that Democrats in the state are currently fighting for. The only exceptions are for certain fetal conditions or if the pregnant mother’s life is in danger. And the ban includes 15 years in prison and up to $200,000 in fines for doctors who violate the law.
“I could have lost my life because of the extreme abortion ban in Louisiana triggered by Donald Trump and his overturning of Roe v. Wade. Wade,” Joshua added in the statement. “What is happening in Louisiana was made possible by Donald Trump – and will threaten the lives of more women like me. He did this and we must stop him.”
The Biden campaign on Thursday also launched a seven-figure ad campaign focused on Trump’s recent comments to Time magazine in which he said states should decide whether to monitor women’s pregnancies or prosecute those who have illegal abortions.
The campaign has targeted restrictive abortion bans in other states and linked the former president to them, hoping that abortion will boost Democratic voter turnout in November.
Vice President Harris traveled to Florida on Wednesday, as the state’s 6-week abortion ban went into effect, to attack Trump.
Last month, she went to Arizona to slam the former president just days after the state Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law that made abortion a crime — a law that was repealed on Wednesday.
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