Louisiana judge blocks state’s trigger law banning abortion

Louisiana is one of the states with a trigger law where the ban on performing abortions went into effect on Friday. A state judge on Monday granted a request from the Hope Medical group for women in Shreveport, one of the state’s three abortion providers, to block the law for now. Kathaleen Pittman, Hope Medical Group’s clinical administrator, joins John Yang to discuss.

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