In fight for rape exception to abortion ban, Louisiana legislator draws on mother’s painful past
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When state Rep. Delisha Boyd was born in September 1969, abortion was illegal in Louisiana. Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision, was still more than three years away. So when her 15-year-old mother conceived her after a statutory rape by a 28-year-old man, Boyd said, she had few options. She could carry the pregnancy to term or flee to a state that allowed abortions. Today, a girl in Louisiana could face a similar choice. Understanding that reality prompted Boyd, a Democrat who has...

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