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Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals
A troubling new report from Louisiana shows how the state’s abortion ban from 2022 is forcing doctors to delay or withhold medical care in ways that make pregnancy more dangerous.
‘Dobbs’ forced a clinic to close. But it hasn’t stopped the owner from opening more
The Dobbs abortion ruling was centered on the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi. That clinic was forced to close. But owner Diane Derzis is now opening new clinics in other states.
Bleeding and in pain, she couldn’t get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage?
When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned.
Louisiana’s abortion ban has doctors worried about patients — and their own careers
Louisiana’s abortion ban makes an exception if the fetus would not survive birth or to save a patient’s life. But doctors say they fear that vague wording puts their patients and careers at risk.
The scene at the Mississippi clinic at the center of the abortion ruling
The clinic at the center of the Supreme Court’s Roe decision is Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The last clinic to provide abortions in Mississippi, it lost its fight to preserve abortion rights.
