🚨BREAKING: Louisiana health care workers and advocates sue state, claiming misoprostol law violates constitution @IlluminatorLA @pulitzercenterlailluminator.com/2024/10/31/lou… Kaitlyn Joshua and Nancy Davis were both denied abortions in Louisiana while they were pregnant. Joshua was pregnant and miscarrying and turned away from two ERs and Davis had a fetus developing without a skull. They are plaintiffs in the suit as La. taxpayers

On Monday I attended an almost six-hour hearing on the Ten Commandments law in Louisiana where lawyers representing students and parents argued displaying the law in every classroom -- including gym! --was "state establishment of religion" @RollingStonerollingstone.com/politics/polit… A legal historian testified, stating that the argument that the Ten Commandments are infused in our nation’s founding documents — an argument Gov. Landry has used repeatedly — is not true. “We have a lot of founding myths and this is one of them,” said Prof. Green.

Tomorrow misoprostol and mifepristone — life-saving medications used in pregnancy care — will be reclassified as controlled dangerous substances in Louisiana. They are being targeted because they are used in abortions, but that's far from their only use. 🧵 This began back in May when State Sen. Thomas Pressly (R) filed Senate Bill 276 in honor of his sister, whose husband slipped abortion pills into her drink without her consent. The bill created the crime of “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud"

I spoke with a NOLA-area doctor who conducted a timed drill to see how much of a delay getting misoprostol from down the hall introduced. She said it was more than a two minute difference from having it bedside: @IlluminatorLA @pulitzercenterlailluminator.com/2024/09/20/hos… This is a delay of more than 120 seconds in care for a patient who is hemorrhaging… “Every second counts” she told me.

BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first @pulitzercenter StoryReach article for @IlluminatorLA lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/lou… 50 doctors signed a letter to the Louisiana Department of Health and Surgeon General Ralph Abraham asking for additional guidance, specifically “how to ensure [misoprostol] will be readily and quickly available in commonly used obstetric hemorrhage carts.”

AI experts are pleading for regulations to help fight misinformation this election season, but some government officials are blocking efforts. My latest for @RollingStone on the struggle to control an increasingly threatening problem rollingstone.com/politics/polit… The @FCC is currently taking public comments on their proposal, which suggests requiring advertisers disclose when AI technology is used in political ads on radio and television.