Lorena O'Neil

The Alabama sheriff’s department released a love letter the priest wrote to the 18-year-old, as stories surface of him trying to exorcise students' demons. An exorcism-loving Alabama priest has fled to Italy with a recent high school graduate whose…

A week after rejecting exceptions for rape and incest, the Louisiana legislature’s criminal justice committee rejected two more bills on Tuesday that would clarify that abortion care is legal for miscarriages or nonviable pregnancies today. Democrat…

"They voted against abortion access for raped children but apparently couldn’t stomach our three minute statements," one witness told Jezebel. Audrey Wascome, who says she was sexually abused by a relative as a child and later was raped at 17,…

A pastor who allegedly abused a 4-year-old said women will “clamor to put old boyfriends behind bars...to dispense with the inconvenience of giving birth.” After a truly eyebrow-raising hearing on Wednesday, Louisiana’s House criminal justice…

Director Roxanne Benjamin spoke with Jezebel about the decision to make this particular movie amid a torrent of reproductive pressure in her own life. Horror film director Roxanne Benjamin is sick of constantly getting sent scripts about people who…

The Krewe of Endymion say they've received "significant feedback" and "threats" in the less than 24 hours since the announcement of Gibson's role in the parade. Less than 24 hours after Louisiana’s Krewe of Endymion announced Mel Gibson would be one…

We're seeing more scenes of people having to cross state lines for an abortion, running up against gestational limits, and other barriers mimicking the news. Truth or Fiction? A doctor in Idaho tells a pregnant working mom she has a cesarean scar…

“Motherhood has always been this combination of pain and joy and love, and we don’t hear about the bad parts because nobody listens to women,” she told Jezebel. In the depths of the hell that was parenting in the pandemic, when anxiety threatened to…

In federal court earlier this month, a former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty to depriving a teenage rape survivor of her “right to bodily integrity” when he kidnapped and sexually assaulted her in September 2020. On Nov. 16, Rodney…

A former Catholic priest who was caught having a threesome with two dominatrices on the altar of a Louisiana church pleaded guilty to felony obscenity on Monday. Travis Clark, 39, was arrested in 2020 after a passerby claims he saw the light on in a…

“We can’t tell the patient to be dishonest, but what we can say is…’What you mean is, you’re already having a miscarriage, right?’” Jezebel broke the story last week that Louisiana has reported zero legal abortions since August 1, after the state’s…

Director Phyllis Nagy told Jezebel it was important for her to “normalize this very common healthcare procedure, which it’s never treated as in movies.” Elizabeth Banks’ new film, Call Jane, tells the story of a conservative suburban mom in 1968 who…

A public abortion hearing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to debate the list of conditions that qualify a pregnancy as medically futile turned into an emotional open mic event, featuring intimate horror stories by doctors and patients alike. Katie…

Mississippi officials are worried about the influx of babies estimated to be coming to the state, now that abortion is almost entirely illegal there. In a state senate hearing on Sept. 28, health officials estimated that as a result of the Dobbs…

“I’m the one in the hospital bed,” Democratic challenger Katie Darling told Jezebel. “I’m the one that should make the decisions for my life.” Katie Darling, a 36-year-old U.S. House candidate from Louisiana, was seven months pregnant when Roe was…

The transgender students were bullied, the boys had to do push-up competitions for money, and many students reported being "traumatized." On Tuesday, 2,100 Louisiana students were bussed from their Baton Rouge high schools to what they thought would…

In May 2021, a New Orleans Police Department crime scene technician reported that she was raped by a police officer while they were out on a date. The officer, Gerry Paul, was arrested, temporarily suspended, and then placed on administrative…

"People are not coming to save us first. We are at the last of everything.” The water system is failing in Jackson, Mississippi, leaving up to 180,000 people—the vast majority of whom are Black—without access to safe drinking water. They are being…

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) successfully urged the Louisiana Bond Commission on Thursday to delay a $39 million future line of credit for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board–which the city needs for its flood response–until city…

The state's only three clinics are being forced to relocate in the wake of a near-total abortion ban, and they're scrambling to come up with a plan. Hope Medical Group in Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of the state’s three remaining abortion…