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Abortion-rights supporters protest on the steps of the John Minor Wisdom United States of Appeals Fifth Circuit Building after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, in New Orleans, Friday, June 24, 2022. Democratic lawmakers in Louisiana are pushing bills to add exceptions, including in cases of rape and incest, to the state’s near-total abortion ban. A GOP-dominated House committee began its review of those measures Tuesday, April 30, 2024, but similar proposals for loosening one of the country’s strictest abortion laws effectively died there last year. (Sophia Germer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Tue,05/07/24-5:52PM , 123 Reads
Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban.
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Louisiana Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd looks out the window at her office May 3, 2024, in New Orleans. As Boyd faces an uphill battle in Louisiana, as she attempts to advance a bill that would add cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana's near total abortion ban, the Democrat opens opening up about her mother's harrowing story and how it effected them. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

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For a Louisiana lawmaker, exempting incest and rape from the state's abortion ban is personal
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Mon,05/06/24-5:48PM , 99 Reads
For Louisiana Rep. Delisha Boyd, the uphill battle she faces to exempt pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest from Louisiana’s strict abortion ban is not just morally right — it’s also personal.
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Last year there was an LGBTQ+ ally in the Louisiana governor's office. Now, there is nothing standing in the way of this year's legislation hostile to transgender people.

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Transgender Louisianans lost their ally in the governor's seat. Now they're girding for a fight
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Tue,04/23/24-1:02PM , 122 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of laws targeting nearly every facet of their lives in recent years, they counted on their ally in the governor’s office to keep their home a relative oasis.
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A New Orleans French Quarter resident holds a handgun as he keeps watch on his house on Bourbon Street, Sept. 12, 2005. As Louisiana prepares for a new law to go into effect that allows those 18 and older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit, a Republican-controlled committee pushed back against bills Wednesday, April 17, 2024, that seek to restrict where people can carry guns. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

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Louisiana bills seeking to place restrictions on where people can carry guns receive pushback
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Wed,04/17/24-8:35PM , 126 Reads
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