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A judge in Louisiana temporarily blocked three state laws banning abortion from taking effect Monday.
The abortion restrictions were written to take effect if the Supreme Court ever overturned Roe v. Wade, which it did on Friday. Several states across the country have enacted similar laws, known as “trigger laws.”
Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Robin Giarrusso issued the temporary block shortly after an abortion clinic in the state filed a lawsuit, according to a copy of the order first obtained by Reuters. The clinic argued the abortion restrictions, which would ban virtually all abortions in the state, violate its due process rights and “lack constitutionally required safeguards to prevent arbitrary enforcement.”
Giarrusso will hold a hearing to decide whether to more extensively block the laws on July 8, according to the order.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Supreme Court awaiting the Dobbs ruling.
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The Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, allowing state governments to regulate abortion for the first time since 1973.
A dozen other U.S. states have passed trigger laws similar to Louisiana’s.