This week in Louisiana...
Submitted by merenberg on May 15th, 2017The legislative session is picking up speed. Here is what has happened with several of the bills we are tracking.
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Louisiana Among Worst States For Abortion Restrictions Based on Lies, According New GUTTMACHER Analysis
Submitted by merenberg on May 9th, 2017
Lift Louisiana Launches State-Focused Lies into Laws Education Campaign
USHRN Joins the UN Special Rapporteur: The Proposed ACA Repeal is a Violation of Human Rights
Submitted by merenberg on May 9th, 2017
Last Thursday’s passage of the Republican health care plan in the House is devastating. Already marginalized communities, including communities of color, the poor, elderly, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, women, and immigrants will be most impacted by the plan. The scale of the damage that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would cause is huge: an estimated 30 million people in the U.S. would be negatively impacted.
US House's Shameful Attack on Women's Health
Submitted by merenberg on May 5th, 2017This week, the President signed an executive order to roll back women's birth control coverage. 55 million women in the US have benefited from this essential requirement.
And yesterday, House Republicans passed their dangerous new bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If the bill becomes law, it will put women's health and economic security in dire jeopardy.
AHCA would take health care coverage away from tens of millions of people, and raise costs for many more.
The bill is especially devastating for women and families. It would:
This week in Louisiana...
Submitted by merenberg on April 28th, 2017In case you missed it, here's a rundown of what happened this week in Louisiana's Capitol. And what's coming up next week!
Lift Louisiana Applauds Recent Ruling on Abortion Restrictions
Submitted by merenberg on April 27th, 2017
This week, a federal district court permanently blocked Louisiana’s Texas-style clinic shutdown law, citing the Supreme Court’s recent historic ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt.
BREAKING: Lift Louisiana Supports Legal Challenge to Stop Abortion Restrictions
Submitted by merenberg on April 20th, 2017Today, a new lawsuit was filed in state court against the Louisiana Department of Health challenging agency regulations on abortion providers pushed through under the Jindal administration in 2015. These regulations are burdensome, medically unnecessary, and if fully enforced, could threaten to close the remaining three clinics in the state.
Advocates are headed to the State Capitol for a EQUAL PAY DAY in Louisiana!
Submitted by merenberg on April 19th, 2017
Tomorrow is Equal Pay Day -- the day when Louisiana's women’s average earnings finally catch up with men’s average earnings from the previous year. Women in Louisiana earn only 68 cents to every dollar a man makes. This is even worse for black women, who earn only 47.8 cents and Latino women, who earn only 50.9 cents. This is unacceptable, and that’s why tomorrow, we are joining advocates nationwide in demanding equal pay.
Why the Are Tampons, Pads and Diapers Still Taxed Anyway?
Submitted by merenberg on April 17th, 2017
Louisiana Senator JP Morrell has introduced SB 24 and SB 27 this year that would exempt from state sales tax, tampons, pads, and other feminine hygiene products as well as cloth and disposable diapers size 7 and smaller.
Women in Louisiana Prisons: Part 2
Submitted by Torrie Thibodeaux on April 16th, 2017
“In seeking to understand this gendered difference in the perception of prisoners, it should be kept in mind that as the prison emerged and evolved as the major form of public punishment, women continued to be routinely subjected to forms of punishment that have not been acknowledged as such…”
-Angela Davis
