Rosemary Westwood

When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned.

After 42 years, Hope Medical Group for Women will close because Louisiana has banned almost all abortions. The clinic director and some staff may move to a state where abortion is legal.

Louisiana's abortion ban makes an exception if the fetus would not survive birth or to save a patient's life. But doctors say they fear that vague wording puts their patients and careers at risk.

The clinic at the center of the Supreme Court's Roe decision is Jackson Women's Health Organization. The last clinic to provide abortions in Mississippi, it lost its fight to preserve abortion rights.

Minors in Louisiana can again petition judges for the right to get an abortion, after a Lafayette judge lifted a temporary restraining order Wednesday and dismissed a lawsuit filed by a mother over her teenage daughter’s abortion.

If states were allowed to shut down legal abortion access, people in Louisiana would face the longest journey to reach an abortion clinic in a liberal state, new data show.

A Lafayette judge is preventing some minors from obtaining abortions in Louisiana, after the mother of a 17-year-old abortion patient sued the state and abortion clinics.

After Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday that masks would not be required in most places statewide except in certain schools, some public health experts said not only should masks remain mandatory in all schools, but it’s too soon for the rest of the state to take them off.

Public health officials are urging many fully vaccinated people in Louisiana to get a booster shot in the wake of new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.

New Orleans City Council is expected to adopt a range of new requirements for seniors’ living facilities on Thursday, after hundreds of vulnerable residents were left without power and five died in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.