Abortion clinics in Louisiana can continue operating while a lawsuit challenging the state’s near total ban on abortions is resolved, a state judge ruled Thursday.
The preliminary injunction issued by state district judge Donald Johnson in Baton Rouge is the latest development amid a flurry of court challenges to state "trigger" laws that were crafted in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established abortion rights,For weeks, access to abortion has been flickering in Louisiana where there are three clinics.
The state could appeal his order, however, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has said he expects the case to wind up at the state Supreme Court.Landry did not issue an immediate comment but was expected to address the issue at a Thursday morning meeting. "With this decision, Chief Judge Johnson determined that we are likely to succeed on the merits of our lawsuit," Joanna Wright, an attorney for the clinic, said in an email. "We are prepared to prove our case and hope to obtain a final ruling that the trigger bans are unconstitutional and cannot be enforced."The plaintiffs in the lawsuit don’t deny that the state can now ban abortion as a result of the Supreme Court ruling.
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