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BATON ROUGE -- Court battles prompted by the Supreme Court's June 24 ruling reversing abortion rights played out in multiple states Monday, with a judge in West Virginia blocking that state's 150-year-old abortion ban and one in Louisiana leaving an order against enforcement of that state's ban in place for now.
A Louisiana judge temporarily paused the state's ban on abortions pending the hearing in a lawsuit that claims the law is unconstitutionally vague.
With access to abortion flickering in Louisiana, the legal battle over the statewide ban continues with a court hearing scheduled to begin Monday morning. 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. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff…
State District Judge Don Johnson heard arguments Monday in the lawsuit challenging a Louisiana abortion ban.
"She was screaming—not from pain, but from the emotional trauma she was experiencing," the woman's doctor wrote in an affidavit.