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Advocates for Women’s Health Admonish the Louisiana Legislature for Attacks on Women and Families

Submitted by merenberg on May 14th, 2018

Advocates for women’s health will host a Press Conference on Friday, May 18 to demand politicians focus the last days of this legislative session on improving health care access, the vital social services network, and economic justice for Louisiana women and families.   For the last several months politicians in the capitol have failed to deliver justice for Louisiana women.

Our Perspectives: Birth Control in Prison has a Different Meaning

Submitted by merenberg on April 30th, 2018

Reproductive justice, coined by SisterSong, is defined as “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities”. Reproductive justice advocates focus on access to safe abortion, contraception, pregnancy care, sex education, and much more. In addition, reproductive justice work breaks down all systems of oppression.

The budget cannot be fixed without new revenue

Submitted by merenberg on April 20th, 2018

Cross-posted from Louisiana Budget Project

House budget targets hospitals and college students

Facing a $648 million "fiscal cliff" caused by expiring tax revenue, a divided Louisiana House approved an operating budget Thursday that includes deep cuts to health care services for low-income families and TOPS college scholarships. Needing 53 votes to pass the bill, House leadership mustered 55 votes to send the flawed proposal to the Senate.  The Advocate's Elizabeth Crisp reports:

Louisiana Senators Advance Unconstitutional Ban on Abortions After 15 Weeks

Submitted by merenberg on April 9th, 2018

For Immediate Release

April 17, 2018

Louisiana Senators Advance Unconstitutional Ban on Abortions After 15 Weeks

New proposal very likely to end up in court

New Orleans, LA - On Tuesday, the the members of the Judiciary C Committee in the Louisiana Senate approved a proposal by Senator John Milkovich that would that would ban abortion after 15 weeks from conception.

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Legislative Crisis

Submitted by merenberg on March 1st, 2018

Often getting women in the door of their facilities under the guise of free pregnancy tests and free ultrasounds, crisis pregnancy centers, on their face, don’t look all that bad. However, inside those doors, women are often faced with highly anti-choice propaganda from people who they may have mistakenly misunderstood to be medical professionals or doctors who could help them in their times of need.

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