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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.