Various anti-abortion laws had been on every state statute book since at least 1900.
So were a dozen other constitutional challenges to state anti-abortion laws across the country.
The death led to protests over Ireland's anti-abortion laws and investigations into the actions of the hospital during her treatment.
And it sought to give Louisiana the nation's strictest anti-abortion law.
The state has some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country.
A Federal judge today blocked sections of a new anti-abortion law scheduled to take effect next week.
And the strict anti-abortion law introduced under the church's aegis is unpopular.
That court declared unconstitutional most provisions of a 1986 state anti-abortion law.
The trip also would stand as Gomperts's opening salvo against the world's anti-abortion laws.
Before Congress he has testified against anti-abortion laws and a proposed constitutional convention.