Nine Louisiana families sued the state’s education department and their local school boards over a new state law requiring display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
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Louisiana Becomes First State to Require Public Schools Display Ten Commandments
Louisiana is set to become the first state to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms under a bill signed into law by Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
Read MoreLouisiana Abortion Pill Reclassification Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk
The Louisiana state Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would place two abortion pills on the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, sending the legislation to the governor’s desk for his signature.
The state’s House of Representatives passed the bill on Tuesday, which could make possession of the drugs a crime punishable by jail time or a fine. Surgical and medical abortions are already illegal in the southern state except in extreme cases, meaning it is already difficult to obtain the drugs legally. But now the possession itself without a prescription could get an individual up to five years in prison.
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