News from Louisiana. The article start like this:

Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday to make the state the first in the nation to designate abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances. Possession of the drugs without a prescription would be a crime punishable with jail time and thousands of dollars in fines.

It brought to mind a book I had read recently. In the part of the book that discusses his Indian family’s successful baking business in South Africa, the government (which was not friendly to non-whites in those days) made bakers yeast a controlled substance and frequently harassing the bakery.