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- ↑ "Louisiana House debating abortion bill," The Baton Rouge Advocate , accessed February 8, 2019. Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Abortion: I wrote Louisiana's pro-life law. The Supreme Court ruled against women's health".
- ↑ "Rally & March Info - March For Life". marchforlife.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-10.
- ↑ Sam Hanna, Jr., "Who Wants to Serve?", The Colfax Chronicle, January 31, 2019, p. 4.