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Governor signs bills to protect unborn children in Louisiana.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed three abortion related bills:

The Ultrasound before Abortion Act (SB 528) adds strict ultrasound requirements to the state’s informed consent laws.

HB 1247, the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out, prohibits health insurers from providing abortion coverage within the state-run health insurance exchange that will go into operation in 2014.

HB 1370, empowers the Department of Health and Hospitals to shut down the operation of abortion facilities not in compliance with Louisiana law. And the DHH secretary may also immediately shut down a clinic’s operations if a DHH investigation rules that the clinic is violating the law and poses “an immediate threat to the health and safety of a patient or client.”