The state Legislature has killed a bill that would have allowed child and teen rape victims of abortion and incest to access abortions, two years after the state implemented a near-total abortion ban.

Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as excep

Louisiana lawmakers Tuesday closed the door on rape and incest abortion exceptions for pregnant children for at least another year and also rejected efforts to add protections for doctors from prosecution and clarifications for medically futile pregnancies.

Louisiana lawmakers voted strictly on party lines, 4-7, to reject a move to add an exception in their anti-abortion laws that would have protected child rape and incest victims from being forced to ca

Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases of rape and incest from Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban

Legislation was scuttled to create exceptions to the state’s abortion ban for minors who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest.