Katrina Renee Jackson (born July 1977) is a

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from Monroe,

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, who is a Democratic member of the

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for the 34th district, serving since 2020. From 2012 until 2020, Jackson served in the

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for the 16th district, which includes Morehouse and Ouachita

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Education

Jackson earned a

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from the

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and a

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from the Southern University Law Center in

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Career

Jackson was elected to the state House in 2011. She serves on the Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development Committee, the Commerce Committee, the Health and Welfare Committee, the Appropriations Committee, the Committee on Joint Budget, and the House Executive Committee. Jackson is a member of the Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus and the Louisiana Rural Caucus, and is the head of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus. In 2014, Jackson, who unlike most national Democrats opposes

abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pre ...

, authored House Bill 388, which would require abortion providers to have

admitting privileges An admitting privilege is the right of a doctor to admit patients to a hospital for medical treatment without first having to go through an emergency department. This is generally restricted to doctors on the hospital staff, although in some count ...

with a hospital near their clinics. The law was approved in the House with only five dissenters. If passed, it would reportedly have resulted in three of the state's five abortion clinics closing immediately. The bill was argued to be

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under the precedent set by the decision in

Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt ''Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt'', 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court decided on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an ...

, and was struck down as such by the

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in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo in June 2020. On January 22, 2016, Jackson was a guest speaker at the

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in Washington, D.C. In the nonpartisan blanket primary on October 12, 2019, Jackson was elected unopposed to succeed term-limited Democratic lawmaker Francis C. Thompson for District 34 in the

. Thompson is instead seeking to return to the state House in which he served for thirty-three years prior to 2008 and replace the term-limited Republican representative

Charles "Bubba" Chaney Charles R. Chaney, known as Bubba Chaney (born September 23, 1946), is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 19, which includes his home city of Rayville in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. A graduate ...

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.Sam Hanna, Jr., "Who Wants to Serve?", ''The Colfax Chronicle'', January 31, 2019, p. 4.

References

External links

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