🖤💚🖤 “Abortion in Louisiana is already so safe that providers rarely have to send someone to an emergency room, much less admit them to a hospital. Hospitals may decline privileges to abortion providers for this reason, but also because of stigma against the very providers that they are sending their own patients to when they need necessary care. Or because of fear of an increasingly complex set of rules and regulations around the provision of abortion. I am saying this as someone whose job it has been to advance quality and safety in care. We know that Louisiana has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. We know that Black women in Louisiana are four times more likely to die compared to white women, and that many of these deaths are preventable. This is unjust, and we are working so hard in Louisiana right now to change this reality together, inside and outside of hospitals. But some Louisiana lawmakers say they value the health of mothers, say they trust women,...