Louisiana lawmaker tries again to add abortion exception for minors

Louisiana lawmaker tries again to add abortion exception for minors

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- Louisiana lawmakers will once again consider adding exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban during the upcoming legislative session. House Bill 215, authored by state Rep. Delisha Boyd (D-New Orleans), would allow minors who become pregnant as a result of certain sex crimes to seek an abortion under state law. The proposal applies to victims under the age of 17 and includes the following offenses: …

Louisiana bill would allow abortion exceptions for minors in sex crime cases

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- Louisiana lawmakers will once again consider adding exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban during the upcoming legislative session. House Bill 215, authored by state Rep. Delisha Boyd (D-New Orleans), would allow minors who become pregnant as a result of certain sex crimes to seek an abortion under state law. The proposal applies to victims under the age of 17 and includes the following offenses: …

Missouri House GOP starts over with new bill to ban abortion with limited exceptions

Rep. Brian Seitz, a Branson Republican, speaks during House debate in March 2025 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications).With less than six weeks left in the legislative session, Missouri House Republicans scrapped their latest of several iterations of an abortion ban in search of a new solution.  The newest proposed constitutional amendment got its first committee hearing Wednesday night with a bill filed by Republican state Rep. Ed Lewis of…

House panel approves constitutional amendment limiting abortion rights

The amendment would prohibit abortions except for in cases of medical emergency, rape or incest in the first trimester.

House committee rejects rape and incest exceptions to Arkansas abortion ban

Unswayed by appeals to help child victims of rape, Republican lawmakers killed an attempt to add limited exceptions to Arkansas’s abortion ban.

Federal leadership on abortion access found lacking - Medical Republic

Termination of pregnancy has been noticeably absent from the conversation this election cycle.