A renewed push to bring back abortion to Louisiana failed in a legislative committee Monday, March 25. A bill authored by State Rep. Aimee Freeman, D-New Orleans, would have enshrined into the state’s constitution a person’s right to make decisions on reproductive health care without the government stepping in.
President Joe Biden averted a government shutdown on Saturday when he signed a new $1.2 trillion federal spending bill – one that had in part been held up over a […]
By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that ultimately would have let voters decide whether or not abortions should be legal in Louisiana, a state with a near-total ban, has failed after a Republican-controlled committee rejected it. The legislation proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s constitution that would enshrine reproductive rights
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that ultimately would have let voters decide whether abortions should be legal in Louisiana, a state with a near-total ban, failed after a Republican-controlled committee rejected it Monday.The legislation proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s constitution that would enshrine reproductive rights for women, including allowing contraceptives such as birth control, access to abortions and infertility treatments. If the measure advanced, it would have been...
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The bill would have transferred ownership of the arch hangar from the Loring Development Authority to the Loring Air Museum.
The proposed amendment was sold as attempting to protect doctors in medical emergencies, but would have gone much, much further.
By Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan, KFF Health News In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering campaign to put a constitutional amendment to voters this year to legalize abortion in the state. “We have fought long for this moment,” the Rev. Love Holt, the emcee, told the crowd. “Just two years after Missouri made...
The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill in the early hours of Saturday morning, with numerous Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues in approving the bill to avert a government shutdown.The vote, 74-24, in the Senate was concluded at approximately 2 a.m. on Saturday, after the funding bill passed in the House of Representatives late Friday morning. Voting continued after the midnight funding deadline and will now go to President Joe Biden's desk for a signature to avert a...
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The US Senate wants a public hearing for the looming TikTok Ban bill and have it passed.
White House national security communications adviser John Kirby stated in a new interview that it wants the US Senate to "move swiftly" to vote for a bill that could ban TikTok in the US.