"Just knowing what's going to happen, the deaths and the poverty rates, how my fellow legislators and the governor and other people don't see that just blows my mind," said Louisiana State Rep. Mandie Landry.
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Letter to the editor.
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Landry urged advocacy groups and citizens to help women travel to states where they’ll be able to receive safe abortion care and for Louisiana physicians and emergency medical professionals to treat all patients, including patients who may have self-managed an abortion.
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Rep Landry interviewed on WWL.
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"It actually narrows what is permitted," said Rep. Mandie Landry, a Democrat from New Orleans who spoke out against the bill.
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“It says that pregnancy begins at fertilization and implantation, and as anyone with a uterus knows, fertilization happens in the fallopian tube and then implantation happens in the uterus,” said Rep. Landry.
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“I’m not surprised that the governor signed this bill. He’s made his anti-choice and anti-woman views clear when he was elected,” said Landry.
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“SB342 narrows the permissible exceptions to the state's abortion prohibition; saying that it expands these exceptions is untrue. For example, under SB342, two physicians are required to declare that a pregnancy is medically futile.” She also noted that “SB342 dramatically increases criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions, which will result in doctors being even more cautious to perform a life-saving abortion. More women will die because of this law.”
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“But there’s a chance they won’t pass anything, because I’m not sure if many of my colleagues from across the aisle are going to even vote for a map that has two majority-minority districts in it,” said Landry.
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“They’re scaring doctors and the legal personhood angle as we’ve talked about probably triggers some criminal statutes, homicide statutes and we feel he’s the only person who can affect this now,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans.
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“It’s shameful. It’s embarrassing. And the fact that some of my colleagues would say that an 11-year-old rape victim should be forced to have that child is a bridge way too far for many of us,” said Landry.
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“It doesn’t mean you can be high at work at all,” Landry said. “The language in the bill is very clear, just like you can’t be drunk at work.”
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The upper chamber voted 26-8 to approve House Bill 988, sponsored by Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, to protect state employees who legally use medical marijuana on the advice of their doctor.
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Landry took to the floor to oppose the bill, speaking on her Catholic faith.
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Jennifer Klein, White House Gender Policy Council Director and Julie Chavez Rodriguez, White House Intergovernmental Affairs Director, hosted a meeting with state legislative leaders in Kansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina on efforts to defend reproductive health and rights.
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House Bill 160, authored by State Representative Mandie Landry, will expand protections for 1.4 million Louisiana renters, according to the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center.
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Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans), a staunch abortion rights supporter, opposed the bill on the House floor, saying the 49 years worth of abortion restrictions have not helped the women of the state of Louisiana, which ranks near the bottom for maternal mortality, maternal health and infant health.
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Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, proposed an amendment that would make it explicit that the criminal penalties could not be applied to women who end their own pregnancies. Landry’s amendment was shot down.
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“You’re going to have a lot of women who are going to try to self-manage an abortion and the results are going to be very deadly.” Landry said. “We know the coat hanger stories from before Roe are real. It’s going to happen again.”
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House Bill 988, sponsored by Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, protects state employees from negative consequences if they are diagnosed with conditions for which a doctor recommends medical marijuana used in accordance with state law.
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