Louisiana has taken further steps on the way to becoming one of the most pro-life states in the country.

Governor Bobby Jindal (R) signed three pro-life measures into laws last week. Gene Mills, executive director for the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), tells OneNewsNow that one of the measures deals with abortion funding in federal healthcare reform, banning coverage for elective abortions in the insurance purchasing pools.

"Louisiana exercised its prerogative in saying, 'Thank you, Mr. Obama, but no thanks. We are not interested in providing public monies, or pools of public monies, to offset or provide for insurance coverages that would extend to or include abortion,'" Mills reports...