Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Wednesday that she is joining with the attorneys general of Alabama and Arkansas to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California over their laws shielding abortion providers.
They also filed a federal lawsuit against several entities accusing them of flooding states that prohibit abortion with abortion-inducing medication.
Abortion shield laws protect doctors in those states from facing criminal charges for providing abortion services to women from states with abortion restrictions.
The three states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare these laws in violation of the U.S. Constitution's full faith and credit clause, the equal-sovereignty doctrine, the federal common law of public nuisance, and the dormant commerce clause.
"Louisiana has made its position on abortion clear through the bipartisan will of the people's representatives in its Legislature. Louisiana chooses life," said Murrill. "We will not allow activists states, activist providers, or distributors profiting from killing babies to threaten Louisiana's sovereignty, violate Louisiana law, or endanger Louisiana women and babies."
Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have also filed suit in federal court in Louisiana against 30 abortion medication facilitators that they claim engaged in a coordinated scheme to ship abortion pills to the three states.
The suit asks the federal court to declare those actions a public nuisance, and seeks injunctive relief, damages and penalties, and legal costs.
