The US Supreme Court has blocked a Louisiana law restricting access to abortion

The United States Supreme Court Thursday held a restrictive law on abortion pbaded in the state of Louisiana This was the first major decision on abortion in the High Court since President Donald Trump came to power.

With five votes for – the four Progressive Conservatives and the Conservative John G. Roberts Jr. – and four against – the rest of the Conservatives – the Supreme has blocked the application of the norm while magistrates study their constitutionality more thoroughly.

The restrictive law medical forces who practice abortion in Louisiana enjoy admission fees to a hospital 30 miles away (about 50 km) from your clinic.

His critics had denounced that the rule would leave a single doctor fit to practice the procedure in a state of 4.7 million inhabitants, whose annual demand is close to 10,000 abortions.

Louisiana says such a law is needed to strengthen medical skills, but critics say that there is no medical justification to the law and this amounts to a veiled attempt to illegally restrict abortion.

Thursday's decision is the first Supreme Court decision on abortion since Trump he came to the white house and put two conservative magistrates – Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both backed by anti-abortion groups.

These groups hope that the Conservative current led by Trump will push the Supreme reverse the legalization of abortion adopted in 1973.

The last time the High Court ruled on abortion, it was in 2016 When he declared "unconstitutional" a Texas law very similar to that of Louisiana that is under study.

On this occasion too five magistrates -one of them conservative- They knocked out the rule, believing that it did not offer any benefits to women's health. and that it was an obstacle to his constitutional right to undergo an abortion.

The decision on the Texas law was considered the most important Supreme Court decision on abortion since her legalization in 1973, when she declared unconstitutional any interference by the state in the woman's decision regarding pregnancy

In recent years, several conservative trends have attempted to overcome this failure approve standards that hinder access to abortion protected by religious rights or women's health.