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The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee approved Senate Bill 2795 Tuesday, sponsored by Picayune Republican Angela Burks Hill. It goes to the full Senate for more debate.
A companion measure died Tuesday in a House committee without a vote. Tuesday was the deadline for committee action in the chamber where a bill was introduced.
Hill's measure says physicians can only prescribe the abortion-inducing drugs "mifepristone" and "misoprostol" according to directions from the Food and Drug Administration, instead of giving "off-label" instructions now common. It also would force a woman to return to a doctor's office to take a dose of misoprostol, instead of taking it at home.
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