Pro-Abortion Injunctions Attempt to Delay Abortion Bans

America’s first post-Roe v. Wade pro-life laws have been delayed by a series of injunctions that have resulted in women continuing to be able to have abortions.

Many have long anticipated that the end of Roe v. Wade would see a flurry of pro-life legislation passed across America.

Even before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, 13 states had “trigger laws” that would automatically end or severely limit abortion immediately after Roe’s overturn.

But pro-abortion groups have responded by asking for a series of legal injunctions that delay the application of these laws, although they have often been overturned within a few days.

This strategy has thrown a delay that pro-abortion groups have taken full advantage of.

Abortion clinics face closing as state-level pro-life laws pass across America. Photo of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, MO, on June 4, 2019. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)

“Our affiliates, our health centers are fighting to get every single patient in that they can see right now before the state issues an injunction,” said Planned Parenthood president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson.

Trigger laws are on hold in Louisiana, Kentucky, and Utah. Challenges to trigger laws are pending in Idaho, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

Other states have faced longstanding federal injunctions that are now being overturned.

Although Texas has a “trigger law” that automatically bans abortion after the end of Roe, it won’t take effect for about two months.

However, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton acted to end abortions in the state immediately.

Paxton said the state could enforce an abortion ban dating from 1925, which Roe v. Wade long blocked. Now Texas has begun enforcing the ban again.

Pro-life supporters celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 24, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

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