Mon Jul 11, 2022 – 6:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Louisiana’s trigger law banning abortion can go into effect after all, State District Judge Ethel Julien ruled Friday, after abortion allies tried to block the post-Roe v. Wade measure on technicalities.
Designed not to take effect until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe, which finally happened last month, the law forbids abortions after “fertilization and implantation” in all cases except ectopic pregnancies, pregnancies in which the infant could not survive postpartum, and physical threats to the mother’s life.
Despite losing Roe, which since 1973 forced all 50 states to allow most abortions, Louisiana abortion groups challenged the trigger law on different grounds, claiming it suffered from contradicting trigger mechanisms and imprecise prohibitions.
Judge Robin Giarrusso agreed to temporarily block the law, a decision the Louisiana Supreme Court allowed to stand pending hearings in district and appellate court.
But the Associated Press reported that Judge Julien determined Friday that she lacked the authority to extend the restraining order due to another technicality: that the case had been filed in the wrong court and should have instead been taken to state court in the state capital of Baton
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