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CNN has previously reported that the bill sparked outcry from a group of nearly 270 Louisiana physicians, health care providers and medical students, who signed a letter to Pressly expressing ...
The reclassification of the two drugs in Louisiana is an amendment to a bill originating in the Senate that would create the crime of “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud.”
The Louisiana House approved a bill Tuesday that would add two medications commonly used to induce abortions to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, making possession of the ...
[17] [22] At the time the bill passed, 15% of the state legislators were female, with only two female representatives voting against the bill. [23] In 2020, Louisiana voters passed a measure to amend the state constitution to omit any language implying that a woman has a right to get an abortion or that any abortion that does occur should be ...
In Louisiana, sex education was not permitted until 1979, when the current sex education legislation was enacted. [5] In 2015, the Louisiana Adolescent Reproductive Health Coalition (LARHC), a non-profit activist group, was created in order to advocate for comprehensive sex education in schools. [6]
Access to abortion and other reproductive health procedures in the United States varies among specific state policies, and they are usually provided in separate facilities other than hospitals. However, due to changes in restrictions in certain states, many individuals have to travel across state lines to obtain the care they require.
The bill passed as abortion opponents await a final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on an effort to restrict access to mifepristone. The new law will take effect on Oct. 1.
(Reuters) -Louisiana's governor on Friday signed a bill making his state the first in the U.S. to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, a category that healthcare ...