Louisiana bill expanding who can be sued over an abortion heads to Jeff Landry's desk
After numerous concerns from doctors and others, the bill exempts licensed Louisiana physicians from being sued for damages as well as licensed Louisiana pharmacists or pharmacies acting according to regulations.
Advocates for sexual assault survivors and mental health advocates were part of that list at one point. However, lawmakers said they took them out due to keep those records private.
New Orleans reproductive rights lawyer Ellie Schilling told Gambit last week there are a number of legal problems with the bill.
“It still is very broad and vague and expansive in in its language and in its potential implications in terms of creating a cause of action where very little needs to be proven that can potentially be weaponized against a whole range of people who have done something — who knows exactly what — to ‘cause or substantially facilitate’ an abortion,” she said.
