June 27 (Reuters) – Fighting for abortion took place in state courts on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to proceedings across the country as a judge blocked a ban on everything the state in Louisiana and clinics sued for similar relief in Kentucky and Idaho.
All three are among the 13 states with “activating laws” designed to prohibit or severely restrict abortion once the Supreme Court overturned the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade who recognized the right to the proceeding, as it was Friday. Read more
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.
Register now for FREE and unlimited access to Reuters.com
Sign up
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.
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.
Register now for FREE and unlimited access to Reuters.com
Sign up
Report by Nate Raymond in Boston Bill Berkrot Edition
Our standards: the principles of trust of Thomson Reuters.