Abortion Laws

The 2024 election was perhaps the biggest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the results are a mixed bag, including for those living in the South.

A new survey suggests the number of abortions among women in Louisiana may have risen since the state banned nearly all abortions.

In recent years, Catholic bishops have spent millions on campaigns to defeat abortion rights measures at the ballot box. This year, they're taking a dramatically different approach.

The New Orleans Health Department has launched its investigation into whether Louisiana’s new law restricting two common pregnancy medications could harm women’s health or delay medical care.

“The last thing I need to be asking myself during an emergency … is: ‘Could I go to jail for this?’” a doctor said.

In a video released Thursday, she says women are born with "individual freedom." Her memoir is coming out a year after former President Donald Trump said he was "able to kill Roe v. Wade."

Louisiana hospitals have locked up a key drug used to stop women from bleeding out after giving birth as a new state law takes effect Tuesday.

Lawmakers passed a law designed to limit reproductive rights in Louisiana. But it may also limit patients’ chances of surviving common life events like miscarriages and births.

Louisiana’s largest health system has sent guidance to some staff on the state’s new anti-abortion law that reclassifies two common pregnancy medications as controlled dangerous substances.

In one New Orleans-area hospital, they are already practicing timed drills, running from delivery rooms to the locked medicine cabinet where controlled substances are stored, to see how long it will take. In one recent drill, it took more than two minutes for doctors and nurses to retrieve misoprostol for a pretend patient who was bleeding out.