This week on Behind The Lens, Louisiana grew to become the primary state within the nation to categorise two medicines generally utilized in maternal well being care as Schedule IV managed substances. That requires the medicine be saved below lock and key. And mayors alongside the Mississippi River are working collectively to maintain the river navigable throughout drought.
Entry to medicine which are routinely utilized in maternal healthcare has been severely curtailed attributable to new legal guidelines on the books in Louisiana which well being officers say restrict not solely individuals’s reproductive rights, however their very capacity to outlive widespread life occasions, like a miscarriage or the supply of a kid.
In a primary of its type settlement, a bunch of mayors of cities alongside the Mississippi River have agreed to unify their ports from Louisiana all the way in which as much as Minnesota, to take care of navigation functionality on the drought-stricken river.
Our friends this week are Lens reporters Marta Jewson, Delaney Dryfoos and managing editor Katy Reckdahl.
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