“Louisiana’s state House gutted a controversial abortion bill that could have charged women who abort their pregnancies with murder, removing language that criminalized mothers and instructed the state to ignore any federal law making abortion legal,” the Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports.
Louisiana Backs Away from Murder Penalties for Abortion
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