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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : State statute banning abortion must be enforced, he said, adding that he'd notified "all state and county officials, attorneys, investigators, officers, boards, commissions, and agents" to enforce the law.
45% : The law bans abortion with the exception to protect the life of a mother in certain medical situations.
44% : Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a statement saying, "Louisiana's trigger law banning abortion is now in effect" and his office would "do everything in our power to ensure the laws of Louisiana that have been passed to protect the unborn are enforceable, even if we have to go back to court.
42% : In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruled, "The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.
41% : It bans abortion with an exception to save the life of a mother in a medical emergency.
40% : Thirteen states have trigger laws that enable the states to enforce laws already on the books banning abortion.
40% : An estimated 23 states are expected to ban abortion in some capacity after the Supreme Court ruling.
40% : South Dakota's trigger law immediately banned abortion after the ruling "unless there is appropriate and reasonable medical judgment that performance of an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant female.
39% : Mississippi became the 10th state to ban abortion after Attorney General Lynn Fitch certified its trigger law.
36% : " Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge certified a state trigger law allowing a 2019 ban on abortion to go into effect immediately.
32% : Gov. Asa Hutchinson, standing next to her, said the Supreme Court "returned the issue of abortion to the states.
32% : In Utah, general counsel for the Utah Legislature, John Fellows, issued a statement saying a trigger law allowed a 2020 law to go into effect immediately banning abortion with the exception of rape, incest, to save the life of the mother or in the cases of serious medical complications.
31% : Prior to the ruling, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a bill into law banning abortion.
23% : So far, 10 state attorneys general have announced that abortion is now effectively illegal in their states after the Supreme Court overturned two landmark abortion cases, Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

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