BATON ROUGE — The state of Louisiana has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, asking that it rescind a 2023 rule that allows "bad actors" to either spike women's drinks with abortion-causing drugs or force them to take abortifacients against their will.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Lafayette, the state said the FDA wrongly allowed a COVID-era rule that let mifepristone be dispensed without an in-person visit continue once the pandemic emergency was over. Because Louisiana has outlawed abortion, the practice should be stopped, the state claims.

Attorney General Liz Murrill said the FDA, seeking to undermine the Dobbs decision that voided Roe vs. Wade, "facilitat(ed) the mailing of mifepristone into every pro-life state." She said hundreds of unlawful abortions occur each month in L

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