Since the cancellation of the “Roe vs Wade” judgment, legal proceedings have been launched in several states. From Ohio to UTAH, associations are fighting to allow women to be free to abort, for a few days.
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A Louisiana judge temporarily suspended, Monday, June 27, the laws prohibiting the women of this state from aborting, adding to the confusion in the United States since the reversal of the Supreme Court on the subject.
The High Jurisdiction canceled the ROE VS Wade judgment on Friday which for almost fifty years guaranteed the right of the Americans to interrupt their pregnancy, making states the freedom to prohibit abortions. Several had immediately eager to declare the voluntary interruptions of illegal pregnancy (abortion) on their territory, relying in particular on laws that have been dormant so far. Others intend to reduce deadlines to abort.
But the legal counter-offensive was quick, with complaints filed before the courts of the States rather than the federal justice. In Louisiana, a clinic and medical students attacked the three laws prohibiting abortion, arguing that they are too “vague” since they do not clearly specify the exceptions or associated sentences. Judge Robin Giarrusso blocked these laws on Monday until an audience on July 8.
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“The abortions can resume in Louisiana,” immediately tweeted the center for reproductive rights, which represented the complainants. “Each day a clinic is open can make a difference in someone’s life,” added its president Nancy Northup in a press release. In the Mississippi also abortion always remains legal.
decisions only temporary
These victories could only be short -lived, the attorney general of Louisiana Jeff Landry having promised “to do everything that is in [her] power to ensure that the laws protecting the birth “. Comparable battles are played throughout the country. In UTAH, a court also temporarily suspended the ban on an abortion, following a complaint filed by the powerful family planning Planned Planned.
This represents “a victory, but this is only the first step in what will undoubtedly be a long and difficult fight,” commented the association, which had engaged these proceedings on the grounds that the prohibition of Abortion, according to her, violates the Constitution of the State. The same argument is put forward in Florida by the detractors of a law bringing the legal deadline for an abortion period, which must come into force on Friday.
Other procedures take place in Ohio, Kentucky, Idaho, Texas or Mississippi. This guerrilla warfare should delay the deadline but, according to the Guttmacher Institute, half of the States, especially in the southern conservative and religious, should in the more or less long term prohibit abortions on their soil.