{"id":1900,"date":"2006-06-20T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/louisiana-gov-signs-law-that-would-ban-abortions\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T14:44:29","slug":"louisiana-gov-signs-law-that-would-ban-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/louisiana-gov-signs-law-that-would-ban-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana gov. signs law that would ban abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&#038;storyID=2006-06-19T122906Z_01_N17239603_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-RIGHTS-ABORTION-DC.XML&#038;archived=False\">Louisiana gov. signs law that would ban abortions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Louisiana <em>Democratic<\/em> Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law a ban on most abortions, which would be triggered if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 ruling legalizing the procedure, a spokesman said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The ban would apply to all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest, except when the mother&#8217;s life is threatened. It is similar to a South Dakota law that has become the latest focus of the abortion battle. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Seven states have such abortion trigger laws, and Louisiana already had a trigger law, although abortion legislation has been blocked by courts. The new law would mean the ban would happen quicker in the case of a new Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana gov. signs law that would ban abortions (Reuters) &#8211; Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law a ban on most abortions, which would be triggered if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 ruling legalizing the procedure, a spokesman said on Saturday. The ban would apply to all abortions, even in cases of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/louisiana-gov-signs-law-that-would-ban-abortions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Louisiana gov. signs law that would ban abortions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}