Posted on 04/05/2018 3:26:18 PM PDT by BBell
A Louisiana House committee voted favorably on four anti-abortion bills Wednesday (April 4).
Three of the bills (House bills 287, 273 and 338) are amended versions of three similar proposals that have been tied up in a federal court battle since they were first approved during the 2016 legislative session. House Bill 449, which proposes the Louisiana Department of Health offer information about adoption as an alternative to abortion on their website, was the only new legislation.
Proponents of the bills speaking during Wednesday’s house committee on health and welfare meeting said they hoped the clarified language would make it easier to clear the legislation out of federal court.
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in July 2016 challenging a total of seven abortion restrictions that were approved in Louisiana that year-- including a bill that tripled the state's mandatory delay for women seeking an abortion from 24 to 72 hours and a ban on a common method of second trimester abortion. The other measures they challenged included:
- a proposal that requires women and their doctors to cremate or bury remains of a fetus after an abortion.
- a ban on abortion in cases of genetic abnormalities.
- a proposal that limits the types of physicians that can offer abortion care.
- a proposal that prohibits any state or local government agency from entering into a funding agreement with an abortion provider or contracting with a third party that contracts with an abortion provider.
- a proposal that would impose a prison term of hard labor for receiving reimbursements for covering expenses for a woman who wants to donate fetal tissue after an abortion. The law specifically excludes those who help women who want to donate fetal tissue after a miscarriage.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
That is if it passes. Only committee approval as of now.
Physicians who provide Abortion Care
Ok
Caring for the mother when she wants to kill her baby
Anyone who wonders what is going on with our western world is ignoring this
That caught my eye as well.
Irony at its best.
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