BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who ...

House Bill 575, by Greenwell Springs Republican Rep. Lauren Ventrella, gives a woman who has an abortion the option to sue ...

State lawmakers approved a measure that would allow pregnant women to sue anyone who illegally gives them drugs for an ...

A pending bill could accelerate what appears to be a brewing nationwide battle over the shipping of abortion medication to ...

Jeff Landry. The bill was crafted in response to a criminal case against a New York doctor who allegedly prescribed online and sent abortion pills to a pregnant Louisiana minor, Attorney General ...

This move is sparking significant discussion and concern among medical professionals and reproductive rights advocates.

BATON ROUGE, La. — For the third consecutive year, Louisiana lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed young victims of rape to get an abortion. In an emotional and religious-laced ...

Louisiana lawmakers voted to reclassify abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled dangerous substances, a first-of-its-kind measure that represents a new challenge to the most ...

Mississippi and Louisiana have near-total bans on abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant person or in cases of a rape that has been reported to law enforcement in Mississippi ...

Pregnant women in Louisiana and some of their family members would be allowed to sue anyone who helps provide drugs meant to induce an abortion under a proposal being considered by the Legislature.

A legal challenge against a first-of-its-kind measure that recategorized two widely used abortion -inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances” in Louisiana can move forward ...