A hearing to determine whether a temporary restraining order against Louisiana’s abortion trigger laws will remain in place played out today at Civil District Court.
“The whole point of that hearing is whether or not the temporary restraining order should be converted essentially into a preliminary injunction to allow abortions to continue,” Ciolino says.
In the end the TRO was dissolved and the state’s trigger laws effectively stopping almost all means of abortion in the state, and imposing penalties against doctors and women who seek out abortions are now enforceable.
As the hearing progressed earlier today, WWL spoke with Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino on the proceeding and the future of the trigger laws in the state.
Ciolino says the state Supreme Court will have to step in and take a stand on the matter.
“The Attorney General asked the Supreme Court to step in and stop this proceeding. But it essentially did little more than say ‘we’re gonna wait and give this lower court a chance to address this on merits and then after that court rules on the merits, then we’ll, if necessary, say what the final answer is.’”
Ciolino tells WWL he believes Abortion will be stopped in Louisiana.
“I think it’s inevitable, it’s just a matter of when,” Ciolino says. “I would expect the Louisiana Supreme Court will, if necessary, step in to allow those trigger laws to go into effect in a few weeks at the latest.”
