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Louisiana Supreme Court refuses to lift order not to enforce the state’s ban on abortions

Mark Ballard - The Advocate Capitol Bureau Editor

A 4-2 Louisiana Supreme Court refused Wednesday night to lift a lower court’s order to temporarily restrain the state from enforcing its ban on all abortions, except to save the mother’s life, until after Friday’s hearing.Louisiana is one of 13 states with a ‘trigger law’ that automatically ended the terminations of pregnancies by pills or surgical means once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which it did two weeks ago. All three abortion clinics in the state were to close immediately.

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