(18 Jul 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – 18 July 2022
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General:
"We believe that ultimately we will prevail. The rule of law will be upheld. Those people that don't like it have two choices; they can go and try to change the law, but if they find themselves in the minority of ideas, they can pack their bags and go somewhere else. In California, it's not a problem but you see these protestors out there as well."
2. Wide of Courthouse with clock in foreground
3. Tight of protesters from across the street.
4. Wide of protesters across the street
5. Ground shot of protesters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zarouhie Abdalian with the Louisiana Abortion Rights Action Committee:
"We reject the invitation to leave the state. We know the states rights laws are all about Jim Crow and oppression and so we reject that fully."
7. Tight shot of Courthouse
8. Wide of Courthouse with Protesters
9. Wide of Protesters UPSOUND "What do we do, stand up fight back"
10. Tight sign of protestor
11. SOUNDBITE (English) KellyAnn Bates, abortion rights demonstrator:
"There's just so many things that are frustrating right now, that I feel are really out of my control but if we come together we can change things. Even by today we were loud enough to almost make him go inside."
12. Shot of Jeff Landry at the mic
13. Wide of protesters
14. Moving wide of counter protesters
15. Tight shot of cross
16. Tight of man praying
17. Wide of man praying
18. Medium of protesters
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General:
"Y'all should really listen to this; laws in this state are presumed to be constitutional unless a judge says otherwise. Today the judge did not say that our statutes weren't constitutional. What that means is that those laws are in effect. All that TRO does is enjoin me or the secretary. It doesn't enjoin another district attorney. It certainly doesn't excuse someone from breaking the law while that restraining order is in affect."
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STORYLINE:
A hearing on Louisiana's laws banning most abortions ended Monday without an immediate ruling from a state judge who kept in place a temporary restraining order that has allowed abortions to proceed while legal arguments are unfolding.
The "trigger law" was designed to take effect immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling establishing nationwide abortion rights.
In the hearing Monday, State District Judge Donald Johnson requested both sides file documents that are due Tuesday morning. In the meantime, he is maintaining a temporary restraining order that keeps the "trigger law" from going into effect, meaning abortions can still take place.
For weeks, access to abortion has been flickering in Louisiana where there are three clinics. A statewide abortion ban has taken effect twice and been blocked twice since the Supreme Court's ruling in June.
Currently, due to a temporary order issued by a state district judge last week, authorities cannot enforce the ban and at least one clinic is offering abortion procedures.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit don't deny that the state can ban abortion as a result of the Supreme Court ruling. Instead, they contend that Louisiana now has multiple, conflicting trigger mechanisms in the law. They also argue that state law is unclear on whether it bans an abortion prior to a fertilized egg implanting in the uterus.
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