Courts are delivering mixed rulings giving both wins and losses to pro-life laws following the Supreme Court’s upending of Roe v. Wade last month, signaling abortion jurisprudence will be unclear for the foreseeable future.
A Louisiana court and a Kentucky court recently blocked those states’ near-total bans on abortion from taking effect while litigation continues.
But the move to allow abortions to be performed in those states is in contrast to a ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding Georgia’s ban on the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.
Lois Shepherd, a health and law professor at the University of Virginia, said abortion jurisprudence will be “unclear for years” following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v.