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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House Republicans voted down two bills that would have given physicians greater autonomy to care for pregnancy complications amid Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban, after opposition from Louisiana Right to Life in a committee hearing Tuesday.
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Two bills to add rape and incest exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban failed in the state House Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday.
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A bill that would give up to $5 million in tax breaks for donations to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers cleared the Senate finance committee on Monday.
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A majority of likely voters in Louisiana support abortion rights and greater access to abortion than allowed under the state’s near-total ban, according to a new poll released Monday.
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When Louisiana’s legislative session kicks off next week, legislators will be facing a slew of proposals to change the state’s abortion ban — proposals certain to see strong push-back from anti-abortion groups.
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When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned.
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The cost of an abortion has skyrocketed in the wake of Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban, costing many patients more than $2,000 and forcing them to travel 1,900 miles round trip, according to abortion rights groups.
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Louisiana ranks as one of the worst states in the nation for maternal and infant health, especially for Black and Native American women, according to the latest report from the March of Dimes. Experts said the state’s abortion ban, which went into effect immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned this year by the U.S. Supreme Court, could make pregnancy and birth even more dangerous.
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Louisiana Right to Life — the state’s most powerful anti-abortion group — has been celebrating a victory it’s spent over 50 years fighting to achieve, but it wants to go further. It wants to end an exception to the ban that allows for abortions for so-called “medically futile” pregnancies in the next legislative session.
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Un grupo de cuatro operadoras telefónicas dedicadas a difundir el propósito de Women With A Vision, un grupo que defiende el derecho al aborto, se sentaron en torno a una mesa de conferencias en las oficinas situadas en Nueva Orleans aproximadamente un mes antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato para llamar por teléfono a los votantes de todo Luisiana y preguntarles sobre los derechos reproductivos.