Rosemary Westwood
Public Health ReporterRosemary Westwood is the public and reproductive health reporter for WWNO/WRKF. She was previously a freelance writer specializing in gender and reproductive rights, a radio producer, columnist, magazine writer and podcast host.
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A bill that would bar COVID-19 vaccine requirements at public agencies, including colleges, universities and schools, is headed for the governor’s signature. -
State lawmakerspassed three anti-abortion bills during the last week of the legislative session in Baton Rouge. All now await Gov. John Bel Edwards’s signature or veto.
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Despite widespread support from faculty at LSU to require students to be vaccinated, GOP lawmakers are close to passing a bill prohibiting publicly-funded agencies from mandating vaccines. Gov. John Bel Edwards has not said whether he’ll sign the bill.
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A bill that would require the promotion of an unproven practice to reverse a medication abortion advanced out of a state Senate committee on Wednesday. It’s one of three anti-abortion bills facing a final vote on the Senate floor in Baton Rouge in order to pass the legislature.
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It’s been a record year for anti-abortion laws introduced in state legislatures, and in Louisiana, the latest battle is over a procedure not backed by scientific consensus — and that could potentially harm women.
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After a year of unusually quiet streets, second lines are returning to New Orleans.
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Thousands of children have received one shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, one week after the state opened up vaccinations to kids aged 12 to 15.
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The mask requirements are largely off in New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana, but the COVID-19 threat is by no means over. Instead, the calculations for personal risk have only become more complex.
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The fate of abortion rights is once again heading to the Supreme Court of the United States, in a case that puts the law in Louisiana indirectly on the line.
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Alex Fabrizio Sumpter is a mother of two children, and she’d already endured two miscarriages when she went for the first ultrasound of her latest…
