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Louisiana abortion providers will be permitted to continue performing the procedure after a district court temporarily blocked the state’s abortion trigger laws on Monday.
The court blocked the trigger laws, which were set to ban abortions automatically once the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which it did on Friday, after a group of providers sued the state, arguing the bans were too vague and violated the state’s constitution. The judge set a hearing date for July 8, and some abortions are legal in the state until then.
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“The trigger bans are unconstitutionally vague for the separate and independent reason that they fail to provide any guidelines or safeguards to protect against arbitrary enforcement as required by the Due Process Clause of the Louisiana Constitution,” the providers said in their filing. “The Trigger Bans also improperly delegate legislative power — that is, the power to say what the law is and when it is in effect — to everyone and no one at the same time.”
The lawsuit, filed on Friday shortly after the court announced it had overturned Roe, argued the bans were unconstitutional because they failed to explain what conduct is prohibited; did not lay out what exceptions, if any, are permitted; and did not specify which of the state’s trigger bans would take effect or whether it was all of them collectively.
This lack of communication, they said, became “apparently clear” on the day the court announced its decision, when the Louisiana attorney general announced the trigger law would go into effect but did not specify which one.
“A public health emergency is about to engulf the nation. As expected, Louisiana and many other states wasted no time enacting bans and eliminating abortion entirely,” said Nancy Northup, CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the abortion providers. “People who need an abortion right now are in a state of panic. We will be fighting to restore access in Louisiana and other states for as long as we can. Every day that a clinic is open and providing abortion services can make a difference in a person’s life.”
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Louisiana is one of 13 states with trigger laws that banned abortions upon the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized the procedure nationwide. By reversing its decision, the court handed the legal authority back to the individual states.
Previous state law banned abortions in Louisiana at every stage of pregnancy unless the woman was at risk of death or permanent injury. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
