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Poet Wolfe in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Louisiana anti-abortion group calls on doctors to stop denying care exempted by ban

Abortion-rights supporters protest in New Orleans, on 24 June 2022, after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade.
Abortion-rights supporters protest in New Orleans, on 24 June 2022, after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade. Photograph: Sophia Germer/AP

An influential group in Louisiana that has long opposed abortion access is calling out medical providers and their legal advisers who – for an apparent fear of liability – have cited the state’s ban on most abortions to deny treatments that remain legal.

The group spoke out after hospitals in the state’s capital, Baton Rouge, refused to provide treatments for a woman who had a near deadly miscarriage.

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