A state judge lifted this Friday the judicial blockade that prevented the entry into force of the abortion ban in Louisiana (USA), one of the states that has tried to do away with this right.
The judge of New Orleans, Robin Giarrusso, paralyzed last week the illegalization of the abortion in the state, but the judge, Ethel Julien, refused this Friday to extend the measure, local media reported.
The illegalization of abortion implies the immediate closure of the three Louisiana clinics that offer services to terminate pregnancy and that are located in the cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport.
organization for the abortion The Center for Reproductive Rights, which last week succeeded in stopping the outlawing, has announced it will seek another temporary block of the measure.
“We fought and won for Louisiana,” state attorney general Jeff Landry celebrated on social media.
The Governor of LouisianaDemocrat John Bel Edwards, supports a ban on abortion despite the fact that his party and the president of USAJoe Biden, defend this reproductive right at the federal level.
The US Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, abolished on June 24 the constitutional right to abortionin effect throughout the country since 1973, triggering a wave of outlawing in the more conservative half of the country.
Organizations defending this right have waged legal battles in states such as Louisiana, Utah, Texas or Florida to try to stop these prohibitions, albeit temporarily.
Biden signed an executive order this Friday to allow women to cross state lines to go for abortions where it is legal.
This policy, however, has a limited scope, since the only way to shield the right to abortion throughout the country it is through an act of Congress, where Biden does not have a sufficient majority.
