This Week in Louisiana...
Submitted by merenberg on March 28th, 2018Legislation is moving forward and we're keeping track of them.
These bills will be up for a vote in the House of Representatives this week
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National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra
Submitted by merenberg on March 23rd, 2018This week, the justices heard oral arguments in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v.
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.
Planned Parenthood files lawsuit seeking license to provide abortions to women in New Orleans
Submitted by merenberg on February 26th, 2018Last week, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC), which operates two clinics in Louisiana, filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) for it’s unconstitutional attempts to prevent the clinics from providing comprehensive reproductive healthcare services, including abortion. Lift Louisiana fully supports this challenge, which is now the fifth lawsuit pending against LDH’s burdensome and unconstitutional attacks on reproductive health and abortion providers.
LBP on Medicaid work requirements
Submitted by merenberg on February 19th, 2018
Gov. John Bel Edwards said this week that his administration is "actively working" to develop a work requirement plan for able-bodied Medicaid recipients. The governor's announcement came on the same week that President Donald Trump's administration announced that it would start approving such plans, which had never before been allowed in the Medicaid program.
Oppose Dangerous Restrictions on Abortion
Submitted by merenberg on January 26th, 2018On Monday, the Senate will vote on S. 2133, a nationwide ban on abortions past 20 weeks. Voices from Louisianans, who know that this restriction harms patients, are essential to defeating it. Please call today!
We are marching again...
Submitted by merenberg on January 16th, 2018
The 2017 Women's Marches across the country began a wave of activism that this country has not seen in decades. We are now sponsoring the 2018 New Orleans Women's March to show that the fight is no where near over.
Lift Louisiana Calls on the Administration to Stop the Attack on Birth Control
Submitted by merenberg on December 5th, 2017
Today Lift Louisiana submitted comments on the US Health and Human Services Department's interim final rules which expand exemptions to protect religious and
The U.S. House Moves Two Anti-Abortion Bills Forward
Submitted by merenberg on November 10th, 2017In recent months, conservatives in the U.S. House have introduced and pushed forward two restrictions on abortion access that would spread the suffering of Louisiana's women across the nation.
Tax Cut Proposals Under-cut Women and Families
Submitted by merenberg on November 9th, 2017
The new tax cut proposals in Congress seem to largely benefit the rich and corporations, at the expense of low- and middle-income Americans, Americans with disabilities, and Americans with dependents and American women. No big surprise after seeing the various failed health care proposals.
Who would be impacted?
People who need childcare
