(Reuters) – Battles over abortion turned over to US state courts on Monday after the Supreme Court overturned a nationwide constitutional right after a judge sued a statewide ban in Louisiana and clinics in Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. team seeking similar action.
Five countries agreed in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade granting the procedural right.
In Louisiana, abortion services, which have been suspended since Friday, have resumed after Orleans Civil District Court Judge Robin Giarrusso issued a temporary restraining order Monday preventing the state from enforcing the ban.
The decision came shortly after Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, one of Louisiana’s three abortion clinics, filed a lawsuit arguing that Louisiana’s trigger laws lacked “constitutionally necessary safeguards to prevent arbitrary enforcement.”
The judge scheduled a hearing for July 8 to decide whether to block further the veto, which Hope Medical says violates her rights to due process under the state’s constitution.
In Republican-led Texas, where the ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect last year, a Harris County judge Tuesday ruled that officials’ pre-Roe v. wade.
In Idaho, a company affiliated with Planned Parenthood has asked the state’s highest court to block a “trigger law” from being enforced. The abortion ban passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature in 2020 and will come into effect in August.
Similar lawsuits were filed by abortion rights advocates in Kentucky and Mississippi, asking state courts to block the enforcement of “triggering” bans that they said violated state constitutions.
source: Noticias
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