Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards defied fellow Democrats on Thursday by signing six-week abortion ban into law.
The signature puts Edwards further out of step with the Democratic Party, whose platform is to allow the government to pay for abortions. Lawmakers in blue states also are pushing for looser restrictions on abortion and to codify abortion rights.
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