Voters approve Louisiana abortion restriction and Alabama church gun laws
Louisiana’s new constitutional amendment restricting abortion is especially close to Louisiana Baptist Executive Director Steve Horn’s heart. His adopted 10-year-old son Dru was born after the birth mother sought help at a pro-life pregnancy center.
“It’s hard to get my head wrapped around what could have been,” Horn said Wednesday after the passage of Louisiana Amendment 1 declaring no state constitutional right to abortion nor abortion funding.
The measure was the only such amendment approved in any state Tuesday (Nov. 3). A similar measure failed in Colorado, where voters were asked to limit abortions to fetuses no older than 22 weeks....
