June 27 (Reuters) – A clinic in Louisiana on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging laws banning abortion in the Republican-led state, which came into force after the US Supreme Court’s hit decision to abolish the constitutional right to abortion across the country.
Louisiana is one of 13 states with “trigger laws” designed to ban or severely restrict abortion after the Supreme Court overturned the remarkable 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which recognizes the right to a procedure. in Friday. Read more
In state court documents, Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, one of three abortion clinics in Louisiana, said it did not dispute the state’s ability to limit abortions following Friday’s ruling.
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He argues that Louisiana is not free to do so in a way that violates the rights of due process and that the state’s prohibitions “lack the constitutionally required safeguards to prevent arbitrary enforcement.”
Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He welcomed the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday and said at an event that those challenging the state’s bans were “a tough battle ahead”.
The case is one of several challenging Republican-backed abortion laws under the state constitution following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
A Planned Parenthood branch in Utah filed a lawsuit against the state on Saturday, and abortion advocates plan to challenge the Ohio abortion ban six weeks later, which went into effect Friday.
In Louisiana, Hope Medical argues that state laws make it impossible to say when they are in effect, whether one or all of them are in effect together, and what exactly behavior is prohibited, such as if there are exceptions to save a pregnant woman’s life. woman.
This ambiguity has led to conflicting statements by state and local officials as to whether the trigger bans are in place, according to the case in the Orleans Civil District Court.
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Report by Nate Raymond in Boston Edited by Bill Bercrot
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