The governor of Louisiana said at an end-of-year press conference that the state's transition to a near total abortion ban has been relatively smooth. In Louisiana, where there have been documented cases of people almost dying as a result of the ban, this would be ridiculous to say in any state, really.
When people were denied abortion access in Louisiana when they probably shouldn't have, the post- Roe transition has been relatively smooth.
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He believes that we should have an exception for rape and incest. The legislature will be asked to put in place that when the session begins in April.
It was generous. People who are pregnant in Louisiana should not face criminal charges if they prove they were raped, but only if they do so in violation of the state's rape law.
If the ban were not life-or-death, his comments would be quite funny. A woman with a rare condition called acrania was denied an abortion in the state because she was carrying her unborn child to bury it. The longer someone is forced to remain pregnant with a dead or nonviable fetus, the greater the risk to their own life.
Nancy Davis had to go to New York for an abortion. Louisiana has an exception for some fetal conditions, but acrania isn't on the Louisiana Department of Health's list of qualified conditions Rape exceptions to abortion bans have been helpful to rape survivors in the past.
Doctors in the state filed an affidavit against the abortion ban in July. The affidavit cited the story of a patient who was forced to endure a painful, hours-long labor to deliver a non-viable fetus, despite her wishes and best medical advice, because the state's near-total ban had just taken effect. The woman who was forced to give birth to a dead fetus after learning that she wasn't viable was screaming from the emotional trauma she was experiencing.
She bled nearly a liter of blood before Williams was able to stop it. An abortion procedure would last 15 minutes. She said that telling the patient that she would have to push out the fetus was one of the hardest conversations she had. The hospital room and medical procedure have been turned into a legal consultation because of the Trigger Bans.
Doctors in Louisiana fear they could go to prison if they mishandled a baby. Doctors in the state said in October that the abortion ban's requirement that they prove a fetus couldn't survive in order to not go to prison has created an atmosphere of terror. Doctors in the state are still trying to help patients even though they can't tell them to be honest. O'Neil was told by a nurse that he was already having a baby.
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