Louisiana can now enforce its ban on almost all abortions under a judge's order issued Friday amid a flurry of court challenges to state 'trigger' laws crafted to take effect.
State District Judge Ethel Julien said Friday that she had no authority to extend the restraining order after concluding that the suit should not have been filed in her court, but in state court in the capital, Baton Rouge. She said the suit belongs there because its claims that provisions in the law are unconstitutionally vague and inconsistent are matters involving legislation.
The ruling was a victory for state Attorney General Jeff Landry and lawyers for the state, who argued that the lawsuit had been improperly filed in New Orleans. It was not immediately clear what effect the ruling would have on three clinics operating in the state. An attorney for the opponents of the law declined to comment."If they continue to operate, they do so under their own risk," Landry said after the hearing.
About 60 protesters gathered outside the courthouse Friday waving signs that read,"Abortion is healthcare" and"Do you want women to die?" The demonstrators, who want to keep the state's abortion clinics open, criticized Landry, who has been a staunch defender of efforts to outlaw abortion across the state.
Abortion advocates in numerous states file court challenges to individual state laws restricting the procedure. In Mississippi, home of the case that led to the Supreme Court decision, attorneys for the state's sole abortion clinic filed a petition on Thursday asking the state's highest court to temporarily block a new state law that bans most abortions. The attorneys made the request on the day the law took effect and two days after a Mississippi judge rejected the same request.
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