In Louisiana, where an abortion clinic and others are challenging the state ban, District Judge Donald Johnson left a June 11 restraining order in place. If lawmakers wanted to repeal the 1800s-era law, they would have done so, they argued. State attorneys argued the law has not been active in decades only because prosecuting people for getting or performing abortions would have been illegal prior to the June 24 Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Groups file complaint against Dunleavy campaign, others Salango granted the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia a preliminary injunction against the 1800s-era ban, saying that in the absence of action by the court, the clinic and its patients, “especially those who are impregnated as a result of a rape or incest, are suffering irreparable harm.”Īttorney General Patrick Morrisey decried the ruling, calling it “a dark day for West Virginia.” He said his office will appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court. In West Virginia, Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Tera L. In another Monday development, the Supreme Court issued an order that put Indiana a step closer to being able to enforce a parental notification law involving girls who get abortions before they turn 18. BATON ROUGE (AP) - Court battles prompted by the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling reversing abortion rights played out in multiple states Monday, with a judge in West Virginia blocking that state’s 150-year-old abortion ban and one in Louisiana leaving an order against enforcement of that state’s ban in place, for now.

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