§2175.10. Procedure for closing outpatient abortion clinics in the event abortion is declared
illegal
A. Except as provided in Subsection C of this Section, the secretary shall apply the
provisions of R.S. 40:1061.1 and 2175.9 and based upon the final decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,
Docket No. 19-1392, the secretary shall issue whichever one of the applicable cease and
desist orders apply, as follows:
(1) The outpatient abortion facility shall be ordered closed and the facility shall
immediately cease and desist performing abortions because the Human Life Protection Act,
R.S. 40:1061, or R.S. 14:87.7 has been enacted and the practice of abortion in Louisiana has
been prohibited by law.
(2) The outpatient abortion facility shall be ordered to cease and desist performing
late term abortions, as is prohibited in R.S. 14:87.8, because the Supreme Court of the United
States has provided for the states to prohibit abortions when the gestational age of the unborn
child is fifteen weeks or more.
B.(1) Any person who violates a cease and desist order of the secretary after it has
become final and while such order is in effect shall, upon proof thereof to the satisfaction of
the court, be ordered by the court to forfeit and pay to the attorney general a sum not less than
ten thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars per violation.
(2) Each abortion performed in violation of the cease and desist order issued
pursuant to this Section shall constitute a separate violation.
C. The provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section shall not apply if the
decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson
Women's Health Organization, Docket No. 19-1392, which overrules, in whole or in part,
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed. 2d 147 (1973), does not restore to the
states the authority to prohibit or limit abortion.
Acts 2022, No. 545, §3.