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  • GOP Lawmakers in Louisiana Reject Adding Rape & Incest Exceptions for Children to Abortion Ban. Again.

    Rape survivors and OB-GYNS shared impassioned testimony about sexual assault and trauma on Tuesday, while Republicans asked that they quiet down.

  • Louisiana Doctors Are Fighting GOP Bill That Would Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills

    “It’s going to set a dangerous precedent for other drugs … what else is coming next? IUDs, birth control pills?” a local OB-GYN told Jezebel.

  • Photo of a mom and her child with masks on

    Jessica Grose Screams on the Inside, But Gives Moms Hope in Her New Book

    “Motherhood has always been this combination of pain and joy and love, and we don’t hear about the bad parts because nobody listens to women,” she told Jezebel.

  • Photo of the back of a police officer

    New Orleans Has a Rape Response Problem

    Police are taking hours to arrive at the scene; rape kits are going untested; cases are indefinitely stalled.

  • Briella Guiza as Lucy and David Mattle as Spencer in the supernatural horror/thriller, THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CHILDREN,

    Horror Film 'There’s Something Wrong With the Children' Grapples With the Pressure to Have Kids

    Director Roxanne Benjamin spoke with Jezebel about the decision to make this particular movie amid a torrent of reproductive pressure in her own life.

  • Photo of Addison from Grey's Anatomy

    How TV Shows Changed Their Abortion Plotlines After Dobbs

    We're seeing more scenes of people having to cross state lines for an abortion, running up against gestational limits, and other barriers mimicking the news.

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    How Louisiana Doctors Are Quietly Helping Pregnant Patients (and Themselves) Avoid Jail Time

    “We can’t tell the patient to be dishonest, but what we can say is…’What you mean is, you’re already having a miscarriage, right?’”

  • Photo of Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver

    'Call Jane' Director On Her Groundbreaking Portrayal of Abortion

    Watching Call Jane, I imagined existing in a world in which the ending—where everyone celebrates the passing of Roe v. Wade—felt hopeful. Instead, it felt like watching people on the Titanic dancing and partying, and the movie ends just before they see the iceberg.

  • A woman handing out bottled water

    In Mississippi’s Water Crisis, Formerly Incarcerated Women Left to ‘Fend for Ourselves’

    "People are not coming to save us first. We are at the last of everything.”

  • Photo of three people getting evacuated in the rain

    Louisiana Delays Critical Flood Response Funds to New Orleans Over Abortion Politics

    AG Jeff Landry just delayed a $39 million line of credit for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board because the city won't enforce the new abortion ban.

  • Photo of three women testifying at Louisiana’s House Criminal Justice Committee.

    Republicans Ignored Rape and Incest Survivors at Louisiana Abortion Hearing: ‘It Felt Like a Slap’

    "They voted against abortion access for raped children but apparently couldn’t stomach our three minute statements," one witness told Jezebel.

  • Kathaleen Pittman, administrator of the Hope Medical Group for Women stands in an office in Shreveport, Louisiana

    Louisiana Abortion Provider Being Forced Out: ‘I Will Not Walk Away With a Whimper’

    The state's only three clinics are being forced to relocate in the wake of a near-total abortion ban, and they're scrambling to come up with a plan.

  • Photo of a woman at an abortion clinic

    Louisiana Doctors: We’re Scared Saving a Life Means Going to Jail

    “Frankly, I am worried that I could go to prison just for handling a miscarriage as I always have.”