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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Nationally, the midterms are set to be a referendum on abortion rights. But in Louisiana, where the anti-abortion movement holds a political monopoly, abortion rights supporters are faced with the question of how to fight back when they’ve already lost so much.
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A Democratic candidate for Congress is taking aim at Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban in a newly released campaign ad that shows video footage of her giving birth — the latest in a push among Louisiana Democrats hoping to galvanize voters by focusing on abortion rights.
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After 42 years, Hope Medical Group for Women will close because Louisiana has banned almost all abortions. The clinic director and some staff may move to a state where abortion is legal.
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Nancy Davis made national headlines this summer after she was denied an abortion at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge — despite carrying a fetus with no brain or skull that would not survive birth. Public health reporter Rosemary Westwood recently spoke with Davis and her attorney, Ben Crump, about what Davis has been through, and why she’s sharing her story.
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Hope Medical Group for Women lost a legal battle to stay open after Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban took effect, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. After 42 years of providing abortions to women in this rural corner of the Deep South, Hope has essentially closed.
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A Louisiana woman denied an abortion at a Baton Rouge hospital, despite carrying a fetus with no brain or skull, traveled to New York this month to have her procedure.
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State Rep. Danny McCormick (R-Oil City) previously introduced legislation that could have seen women charged with murder for having an abortion.
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Health officials are expanding access to the monkeypox vaccine, as New Orleans sees an influx of tourists during Southern Decadence.
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Nancy Davis, a Baton Rouge woman who was denied an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with a lethal anomaly, is calling for the Louisiana legislature to convene a special session and amend the trigger ban criminalizing most abortions.