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Lawmakers consider additional resources for controversial pregnancy crisis centers
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While nothing officially changes until the Supreme Court delivers its decision, advocates on both sides of the issue are preparing for an end to legal abortion.
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Senate committee votes in favor of new penalties for distribution
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Louisiana could adopt a Texas-style law banning abortions after fetal heart tones are detected when the legislative session resumes on Monday.
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Minors in Louisiana can again petition judges for the right to get an abortion, after a Lafayette judge lifted a temporary restraining order Wednesday and dismissed a lawsuit filed by a mother over her teenage daughter’s abortion.
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If states were allowed to shut down legal abortion access, people in Louisiana would face the longest journey to reach an abortion clinic in a liberal state, new data show.
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A Lafayette judge is preventing some minors from obtaining abortions in Louisiana, after the mother of a 17-year-old abortion patient sued the state and abortion clinics.
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As restrictive abortion bans take shape across the nation and legislative battles make their way to the highest court, protesters on Saturday gathered in their respective cities, including New Orleans, to march for reproductive rights as part of the Women’s March movement.
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Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments in December in a case that could see the court overturn or functionally gut Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court precedent that established constitutional abortion rights — and simultaneously let a restrictive abortion ban take effect in Louisiana.