A judge in the US state of Louisiana on Monday suspended state laws that prohibit abortion, after the United States Supreme Court ruled last Friday (24) to overturn federal jurisprudence in Roe v. Wade, of 1973, and to restore the freedom to the states to legislate on the subject.
Louisiana is one of 13 US states with trigger laws, that is, legislation that prohibits or restricts abortion that was expected to take effect once the Supreme Court returned to US states the ability to set laws on the subject as they preferred.
Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Robin Giarrusso ruled on a temporary ban on law enforcement following a lawsuit by Hope Medical Group for Women of Shreveport, one of three abortion clinics in the city, according to Reuters. Louisiana.
According to the agency, the clinic argued that Louisiana’s three trigger laws violated its rights to due process under the state Constitution and “lack of constitutionally required safeguards to prevent arbitrary enforcement.”
He also argued that it is not possible to know which of the state’s trigger laws (or if all) are in effect, which behaviors are exactly prohibited and whether there are exceptions – such as the possibility of performing an abortion to save the mother’s life.
A hearing has been scheduled for July 8, after which the judge will decide whether local pro-life legislation can take effect.
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