Posted on 08/04/2022 8:26:59 PM PDT by marshmallow
The ruling will force the state's abortion clinics to shut down for the third time since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
BATON ROUGE (LifeSiteNews) – A Louisiana appeals court has ruled that the state can once again enforce a ban on abortion throughout pregnancy, in a major victory for pro-lifers in the Pelican State.
The Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted Attorney General Jeff Landry’s request to let the ban take effect while the state appeals a lower court ruling that blocked it last week.
Louisiana’s trigger law, enacted in 2006 and revised in June, bans abortion from “fertilization and implantation” except when necessary to preserve the mother’s life or prevent a serious physical injury or if an unborn baby is deemed “medically futile.” Many pro-life advocates argue that there is never a circumstance in which abortion is medically necessary.
Judge Donald Johnson of the 19th District in Baton Rouge had issued a preliminary injunction against the law on July 21 at the request of abortion providers.
“Louisiana’s pro-life trigger laws can be enforced,” Landry tweeted on Friday. “The First Circuit has ordered Judge Johnson to grant our suspensive appeal.”
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While this is a win, the War of Judge Shopping will go on.
This is exactly as it should be. The issue is pushed to the states for them to decide for themselves. Louisiana, being a more conservative state, would be expected to have more restrictive abortion laws.
Eventually it’ll be overturned at the national level, hopefully.
“We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life—the unborn—without diminishing the value of all human life.”
- Ronald Reagan
Don't be surprised when most, if not all of these trigger laws get overturned in popular referendums.
They were all written when Roe was the Law of the Land and were never expected to actually go into effect.
Well, considering that most all American Election Law, Rules and Procedures have been co opted by the Prog Radical Socialist Democrat Left, including Initiative, Referendum and Recall where they are allowed, I won't be surprised if Lucifer is "elected" President of the US.
Praise God.
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