State District Judge Donald Johnson issued a temporary order last week blocking enforcement pending the hearing in a lawsuit that claims the state law is unconstitutionally vague.
"The courts are an extremely important avenue for this fight," Joanna Wright, an attorney for the north Louisiana clinic that is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said last week. "I think that this is a national moment and a national dialogue and the courts are one way that we are having that dialogue."
The statewide abortion ban, which does not have exceptions for victims of rape and incest, has taken effect twice and been blocked twice since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its historic Roe v. Wade ruling on June 24. Louisiana's law includes "trigger language" designed to make it effective when the Supreme Court reversed abortion rights.
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