US Supreme Court suspends restrictive abortion law passed in Louisiana

The Supreme Court suspended a restrictive abortion law pbaded in the state of louisiana in which This was the first major abortion decision in the High Court since President Donald Trump came to power.

With five votes in favor the four progressives and the conservative John G. Roberts Jr.- and four against -the rest of the conservatives-, the Supreme has blocked the implementation of the norm while magistrates study their constitutionality more thoroughly.

The restrictive law requires doctors practicing abortions in Louisiana to enjoy admission fees to a hospital located about 50 km from their clinic.

His critics had denounced that the rule would leave only one doctor qualified to practice the procedure in a state of 4.7 million inhabitants, whose annual claim is about 10,000 abortions.

Thursday's decision is the first Supreme Court decision on abortion since Trump came to the White House and set up two conservative judges – Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both backed by anti-corruption groups. abortion.

These groups hope that the conservative current led by Trump will push the Supreme Court to overturn the legalization of abortion approved in 1973.

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

On this occasion, five magistrates, including one curator, overturned the rule on the grounds that it did not offer any benefits to women's health and that it constituted a obstacle to their constitutional right to an abortion.

The decision on the Texas law was considered the most important Supreme Court decision on abortion since its legalization in 1973, declaring unconstitutional any interference by the state in the decision of the court. a woman about pregnancy.

In recent years, several conservative states have attempted to override this decision by adopting regulations that impede access to abortion protected by religious rights or women's health.