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Louisiana Right to Life — the state’s most powerful anti-abortion group — has been celebrating a victory it’s spent over 50 years fighting to achieve, but it wants to go further. It wants to end an exception to the ban that allows for abortions for so-called “medically futile” pregnancies in the next legislative session.

LA Anti-Abortion Group Favors Removal of LDH List of "Medically Futile" Exceptions

Spokesman Ben Clapper, who helped draft the law, said on Monday that the idea is to protect babies from deliberate elective abortions.

Spokesman Ben Clapper, who helped draft the law, said on Monday that the idea is to protect babies from deliberate elective abortions.

Three Louisiana abortion clinics will resume providing services after a state judge temporarily lifted the state’s abortion ban Monday.

Louisiana’s three abortion clinics will resume providing services after a state judge temporarily lifted the state’s abortion ban Monday.

Prior to 1977 it was easy for Louisiana adoptees to obtain their original birth certificates; but then the law changed.

Less than a week after Louisiana lawmakers rejected legislation that would explicitly allow people who end their pregnancies to be charged with homicide, a House committee advanced a different criminalization bill that abortion rights advocates say could lead to the same outcome.

The ant-abortion group Louisiana Right to Life opposes bill that would classify the procedure as homicide and punish people who seek it.

The Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would allow adopted people to obtain their original birth certificates.