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Abortion in Louisiana. Abortion in Louisiana is illegal as of August 1, 2022. [1][2] In 2022, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) signed a law criminalizing abortion providers. An earlier version of the bill had also sought to criminalize abortion seekers, but this was vehemently opposed by both opponents and advocates of abortion rights. [3]
Wade in June 2022, there were three abortion clinics in Louisiana. Out of the 7,444 abortions reported in the state in 2021, the last full year before the abortion ban went into effect, at least ...
The Louisiana Senate's vote on Thursday to reclassify the two drugs used in medication abortion as controlled substances marks the latest development in a nationwide battle over abortion pills.
In some states where such challenges were under way, injunctions against the laws restricting abortion were issued, including Louisiana and Utah on June 27, 2022. [204] A lower state court placed an injunction on a 1928 pre-Roe ban in Texas on June 28; by July 1, the Texas Supreme Court reversed this order.
May 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM. By Steve Gorman. (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 ...
Abortion is illegal in Louisiana, [91] except in cases of fetal abnormalities or when performed to save the pregnant individual's life. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. [27] [7] [92] A lawsuit by Hope Medical Group for Women and Medical Students for Choice challenging the ban was denied on appeal by the Louisiana Supreme Court in ...
But in June 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, ... Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision revoked the constitutional right to abortion, Louisiana banned most types of abortion.
As of July 2022, the Guttmacher Institute had reported abortion data for the years 1973 through 2020 and the CDC had reported abortion data for the years 1970 through 2019. Abortion statistics are commonly presented as the number of abortions, the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44), and the abortion ratio.