"The nearest clinic performing abortions to Louisiana is Illinois which is about 700 miles away," she said. "We know that people who are pregnant don't want to be are going to do whatever they want to do the end the pregnancy, and that is the most dangerous part to me."
Read More“The penalties for doctors are different. Neither has a particularly definite triggering mechanism, the questions on the life of the mother exception are different, the recent one actually has some medically incorrect information in it,” Landry said.
Read MoreA key hearing in Louisiana on Friday could determine if the state’s three abortion clinics can stay open in a post-Roe world. State Rep. Mandie Landry breaks down what’s at stake.
Read MoreAs an attorney, Louisiana state representative Mandie Landry has represented women seeking abortions. This past legislative session she introduced a bill intended to prevent pregnancy criminalization.
Read MoreState Representative Mandie Landry (D) called this decision a hail mary for women seeking an abortion right now.
Read MoreRep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, offers up an amendment to SB44, which concerns transgender athletes and provides for the Fairness in Womens Sports Act, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La.
Read More“This decision also signals what is to come — further attacks on women, the poor, Black people, the LGBTQ community, and others whose rights are already so thinly protected. …As a legislator, I am terrified at the open season our legislature will have on women, Black people, and the poor.”
Read More“Our three clinics are now closed, women who need an abortion are going to have to fly to New Mexico, Illinois, New York or women are going to die from this. They are not going to be able to seek the care they need. They’re going to self-terminate,” she said.
Read MoreRep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, sits down with Shannon Heckt to talk about the abortion trigger laws that have immediately gone into effect.
Read More“If I saw a miracle, like the trigger ban being thrown out (by the courts), I think there's a chance, if we come back to do a new one (trigger ban), we may be able to get those exceptions in,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, a New Orleans Democrat who opposed outlawing abortions in Louisiana.
Read MoreAs Mandie Landry points out, the attorney general’s letter has no binding power of law. Plus, the AG fully acknowledges the judge’s stay blocks any enforcement effort while it’s in effect.
Read More“They’re fraud, they’re a money grab,” Landry said. “They’re almost stealing from the state.”
Read More“He is trying to scare doctors, that’s all he’s doing,” Rep. Mandy Landry said. “Everything he said in there… is just his opinion. It doesn’t mean anything because he is not a judge. That’s the short of it. Separation of powers. Maybe he forgot about that from law school.”
Read MoreState Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans) told Jezebel that other states’ trigger laws are often more explicit with the details, stating, for example, that should Roe be overturned, the ban would go into effect within 10 days.
Read More“There’s going to be a ton of litigation and opposition federally to a state saying you can’t purchase a product from another state.”
Read More“It was really amazing to see the court agree that there’s a likelihood that our trigger bans as they stand are unconstitutional,” Landry told The 19th.
Read MoreLouisiana: All three clinics in Louisiana closed on Friday, State Rep. Mandie Landry tweeted.
Read More"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.
Read MoreLetter to the editor.
Read MoreLandry 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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