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The Supreme Court will delay its decision as to whether a Louisiana abortion law can take effect.
The Louisiana measure — which was scheduled to take effect Monday — requires that physicians conducting abortions have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
In a short order issued Friday night, Justice Samuel Alito said the Court would block implementation of Louisiana’s law until Feb. 7 because the justices need time to review court filings from each party. The last of those filings was submitted on Friday morning.
“This order does not reflect any view regarding the merits of the petition,” Alito wrote.Alito issued the statement because he is the justice assigned to hear emergency petitions arising from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appellate court that covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
The Louisiana law is called Act 620 or the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act. Pro-choice litigators say it is substantially similar to a Texas regulation the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in 2016.
In that case, Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the high court concluded the Texas act had no obvious health benefit for women and adverse consequences for abortion access. Over half the state’s abortion clinics closed subsequent to the law’s enactment.
Though a federal trial court judge struck down Act 620 has unconstitutional in light of Hellerstedt, the 5th Circuit reversed and allowed it to take effect.
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