Louisiana abortion laws disproportiately affect people living below the poverty line.
In Louisiana, that’s an estimated 20 percent of the population.
Once again our poor and marginalized communities will be affected most.
Louisiana women already struggling to care for their families will be the ones to suffer.
This is a trigger law, explainsRachel Fey, senior director of public policy at Power to Decide.
IfRoe v. Wadewere to be invalidated by the Supreme Court, that takes it back to the states right.
Kathaleen Pittman is the administrator at Hope Medical Group for Women, one of the few clinics that perform abortions in Louisiana
What I mean by illegal is because ofRoe v. Wade, those are unenforceable.
A full abortion ban would prevent medically necessary abortions, putting the health of Louisiana mothers at risk.
(The national rate is 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.)
Even without this law in place, it is extremely difficult to get an abortion in Louisiana.
On Wednesday, the atmosphere around Hope was very subdued.
As results of the election unfolded we were dismayed on so many levels, says Pittman.
There was so much misinformation surrounding Amendment 1 and seeing thecurrent U.S. president had not been totally repudiatedwas heartbreaking.
I dont think anyone could have anticipated [this happening in] 2020.
But then the erosion of reproductive rights since the mid-1990s is unconscionable.
Butmany more of them wont.
If abortion in Louisiana becomes illegal, this will happen again.
This is even more infuriating given our states maternal mortality rate.
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