Telephone numbers for both offices may be found in the accompanying directory. Toggle navigation. Abortion Facts What is Abortion?
A Woman's Right to Know Ensure that every woman considering an abortion receive complete information on her alternatives and that every woman submitting to an abortion do so only after giving her voluntary and informed consent to the abortion procedure. Protect unborn children from a woman's uninformed decision to have an abortion. Reduce "the risk that a woman may elect an abortion only to discover later, with devastating psychological consequences, that her decision was not fully informed", Planned Parenthood v.
Ensure that every woman considering an abortion receive complete information regarding the availability of anesthesia or analgesics that would eliminate or alleviate organic pain to the unborn child that could be caused by the particular method of abortion to be employed. Informed consent; requirements. After a woman is determined to be pregnant, no abortion shall be performed or induced without the voluntary and informed consent of the woman upon whom the abortion is to be performed or induced.
Except in the case of a medical emergency, consent to an abortion is voluntary and informed if and only if certain conditions are met. About Women's Right To Know Law Louisiana Law requires that providers of abortions in Louisiana ensure that their patients have all of the information necessary, including specific legal rights and options, to make an informed decision before they undergo an abortion procedure. Any outpatient abortion facility will be required to post a sign in each patient admission area, waiting room and patient consulting room.
The sign will outline women's rights and their pregnancy resources. You can't be forced. It is unlawful for anyone to make you have an abortion against your will, even if you are a minor. In fact, forcing a minor to have an abortion is considered child abuse.
If you are a minor being forced into making a particular decision, you can report it by clicking here or calling the Child Protection Hotline at LA-KIDS The call is free and the hotline operates 24 hours per day, days per year. You and the father. Louisiana has one of the most anti-abortion state legislatures in the country. Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, said the Capitol's reputation for supporting anti-abortion bills could make a Texas-style law possible.
Absolutely," she said. But this kind of law might not be necessary to severely restrict or even end legal abortion access in Louisiana and across large swaths country. The U. Supreme Court is considering a Mississippi week abortion ban this fall, in a case called Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization , that could see the court overturn or eviscerate Roe v. Wade , or modifying Roe v. Wade 's precedents," Clapper said. Sharon Hewitt, a Republican from Slidell who's supported anti-abortion laws, said she wanted to evaluate the civil enforcement provision of SB 8 before considering a similar law in Louisiana, but she said she was "anxious" for the decision in the Dobbs case and how it "will impact the pro-life discussions going forward.
If the court overturns Roe v. Wade , Louisiana has a trigger law that will take effect and immediately ban all abortions, except if the pregnant person's life is at risk. Even if the justices only upheld Mississippi's law in a narrow decision, Louisiana also has a week ban on the books that would take immediate effect.
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