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House Passes Budget Without Hyde Amendment Protection Against Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

NEW ORLEANS – Despite emails and calls from his district and the results of a recent poll, U.S. Congressman Troy Carter voted with pro-abortion House Democrats yesterday and approved the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, or H.R. 4373, by a vote of 217 to 212. Efforts to add pro-life appropriations…

Students Fired Up for Life After PULSE Leadership Institute

By Amanda Davidson, Youth Programs Co-Director It is inspiring to see young people passionate about standing up for LIFE! We had 25 high school and college students from Louisiana and neighboring states gather in Baton Rouge for our 2021 PULSE Leadership Institute (PLI) in July. PLI’s theme this year was Pro-Life is REEL Life, which…

New Poll: New Orleans & Baton Rouge Oppose Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

New Poll Shows 2nd Congressional District Opposes the Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Congressman Troy Carter Should Oppose Taxpayer-Funded Abortions and Save the Hyde Amendment Since 1976, Americans have been protected from funding the overwhelming majority of abortions with their tax dollars through the Hyde Amendment, a federal budget rider that must be applied to the…

The Supreme Court will hear another important abortion related question this fall

By Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life For all the obvious reasons, both pro-life and pro-abortion forces are focusing a great deal of attention on the pro-life Mississippi law about which the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments this fall. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health addresses Mississippi’s “Gestational Age Act, “which, with some exceptions,…

Gov. Edwards Signs HB 578, Offering Hope to Women Who Regret Their Chemical Abortion

BATON ROUGE – Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that he has signed HB 578, the Abortion Pill Reversal Disclosure Act, giving every woman the right to change her mind after her chemical abortion and possibly save her baby. The bill was authored by Rep. Beryl Amedee (R-Houma) and carried in the Senate by Sen….