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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Louisiana Republicans refuse rape and incest exceptions to state’s sweeping anti-abortion law

AP

Louisiana Republicans have refused to add exceptions for rape and incest to one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country after the US Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion access.

The state’s anti-abortion Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards opposed the exclusion, but he signed the state’s anti-abortion law last year despite pleas from abortion rights advocates to veto the measure.

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