New Mexico Supreme Courtroom strikes down native abortion restrictions

SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Courtroom on Thursday struck down abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties on the request of the state lawyer basic.

The unanimous opinion reinforces the state’s place as having among the most liberal abortion legal guidelines within the nation. The ruling preserves entry to abortion procedures throughout a state that has grow to be a significant vacation spot for folks from different states with bans.

Attorneys representing New Mexico’s Lea and Roosevelt counties and the cities of Hobbs and Clovis had argued in courtroom that native abortion ordinances can’t be struck down beneath provisions throughout the “anti-vice” regulation often known as the Comstock Act.

Writing for almost all opinion, Justice C. Shannon Bacon mentioned that state regulation precludes cities and counties from proscribing abortion or regulating abortion clinics.

“The ordinances violate this core principle and invade the Legislature’s authority to control entry to and provision of reproductive healthcare,” she wrote. “We maintain the Ordinances are preempted of their entirety.”

Opposition to abortion runs deep in New Mexico communities alongside the border with Texas, which has one of the vital restrictive bans within the U.S.