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A Baton Rouge judge on Tuesday rejected Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s request to allow enforcement of the state’s near-absolute abortion ban while a court case challenging the legality of the ban plays out.
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The Louisiana Bond Commission made good on a threat issued by Attorney General Jeff Landry earlier this week that the state should withhold construction dollars from New Orleans unless city officials commit to enforcing the state’s abortion restrictions by delaying the city’s $39 million request for funds to improve its ailing drainage infrastructure.
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The Women's New Life Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center in Baton Rouge, temporarily closed Tuesday after it was vandalized overnight.
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The order will create a new task force on reproductive health care and to coordinate additional steps to help people access abortions.
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In the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion guaranteed for nearly 50 years, abortion-rights advocates vowed to fight the implementation and enforcement of abortion trigger laws that have banned the procedure in states like Louisiana.
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Louisiana House members voted overwhelmingly for a pair of abortion restrictions Thursday that would immediately shutter the state’s three abortion clinics and impose stiff criminal penalties for doctors who provide abortions and abortion drugs in person or remotely, if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade later this month.
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Less than a week after Louisiana lawmakers rejected legislation that would explicitly allow people who end their pregnancies to be charged with homicide, a House committee advanced a different criminalization bill that abortion rights advocates say could lead to the same outcome.
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A controversial abortion bill that would have allowed the state of Louisiana to charge doctors who perform abortions and people who undergo the procedure with murder died on the House floor Thursday after Republican state lawmakers gutted the bill at the request of establishment anti-abortion organizations.
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Ahead of its Thursday vote, a controversial proposal that would allow Louisiana to prosecute people who undergo or perform abortions as murderers faces an uncertain fate after anti-abortion groups came out against the legislation.
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As the United States braces for the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade and an end to the constitutional protection of abortion rights, Louisiana lawmakers are advancing legislation that would bolster their ability to criminally punish doctors and individuals who violate the state’s abortion restrictions.