A hearing will be held in a New Orleans courtroom Friday to decide if the temporary restraining order banning abortion laws from going into effect will be lifted or not. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino said two weeks ago the US Supreme Court ruled states are free to regulate in the area of abortion.
“That’s what the Louisiana legislature has done, and this effort by the plaintiffs is going to fall short, of trying to get anything done about that,” said Ciolino.
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed the restraining order on behalf of the Hope Medical Group for Women, Hope’s Administrator Kathaleen Pittman, and Medical Students for Choice.
On Wednesday the State Supreme Court declined to hear a petition to remove the restraining order from Attorney General Jeff Landry. Ciolino said it was the high court saying they weren’t ruling on the merits of the case.
“They were just saying lets just let the district court have the first crack and this and if it comes back to us then we’ll probably just reinstate the law anyway,” said Ciolino.
And since Roe v Wade was overturned two weeks which enacted trigger laws ago to allow state the status on the legality of abortion has been up in the air. Ciolino believes it will be finalized today.
“I would expect that after the hearing today that there will be no question anymore that the laws that the legislature enacted will go into effect and abortion will be illegal in Louisiana,” said Ciolino.
The hearing is scheduled for 11 AM.
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