A Louisiana judge has blocked a statewide abortion ban, and Kentucky and Idaho clinics have sued for similar relief, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to proceed with the whole country.
Key points:
- Louisiana Judge Robin Giarrusso issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state to enforce its ban
- A Kentucky clinic has argued that the state ban violates patients’ rights to privacy and self-determination.
- An Idaho clinic asked the state court to also block the enforcement of its activating laws
The three states are among the 13 with “activating laws” designed to prohibit or severely restrict abortion once the Supreme Court overturned the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling recognizing the right to proceed, as it did. be friday.
In Louisiana, abortion services that had been suspended since Friday began resuming after Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Robin Giarrusso issued a temporary restraining order Monday that it blocked the state from carrying out its ban.
The order came shortly after Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, one of Louisiana’s three abortion clinics, sued, arguing that Louisiana’s trigger laws “lack the constitutionally required safeguards to prevent enforcement.” arbitrary “.
The judge set a hearing on July 8 to decide whether to further block the application of the ban, which Hope Medical said violated its due process rights under the state constitution.
Idaho and Kentucky clinics also seek to block the activating laws of their state. (AP: Steve Helber)
In Kentucky, two abortion clinics, including a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood, filed a state lawsuit against an absolute ban on abortion enacted in 2019 and a separate six-week ban passed that same year.
The lawsuit argued that the bans violate patients’ rights to privacy and self-determination under the state constitution.
In Idaho, a Planned Parenthood subsidiary asked the state’s top court to block the implementation of a “detonating” law banning abortion that the Republican-controlled state legislature passed in 2020 and would go into effect. on August 19th.
Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a statement that his office was “fully prepared to defend these laws in our state courts, just as we have done in our federal courts.”
His Kentucky and Idaho Republican counterparts Daniel Cameron and Lawrence Wasden did not respond to requests for comment.
Cases are among several Republican-supported abortion laws under state constitutions following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
A Utah branch of Planned Parenthood sued Saturday for a ban on activating the state, and abortion rights advocates plan to challenge the Ohio abortion ban after six weeks came in. effective Friday.
In Florida, a group of abortion providers appeared before a state court judge to argue a challenge to the new abortion ban backed by Republicans in that state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which they say violates the constitution of Florida.
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