On Monday, advocates persuaded judges in Louisiana and Utah to temporarily block enforcement of so-called trigger laws that were timed to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court reversed Roe.
In Texas, a Harris County judge prevented the automatic resurrection of a 1925 abortion ban in that state after clinics argued that it had been repealed “by implication” after Roe and that it conflicts with a trigger law slated to take effect in a matter of weeks.
Kim Reynolds and legislative leaders said they would ask a state court to reinstate a previously blocked law — similar to Tennessee’s — that bans abortions as soon as fetal cardiac activity can be detected.
The Texas and Tennessee decisions maintained access to abortion in those states through about the sixth week of pregnancy — a deadline that often has passed by the time many women realize they are pregnant.Even before last week’s Supreme Court decision, the state permitted abortions only up to about six weeks of pregnancy.
The protection applies only to the providers listed in the lawsuit and does not account for all Texas laws that could be grounds for prosecuting abortion.
After the trigger ban takes effect, abortion in Texas will be outlawed from the point of fertilization