NEW ORLEANS (AP) The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country Monday, as one side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect and the other tried to stop or at least delay such measures.

The U.S. Supreme Courts decision Friday to end constitutional protection for abortion opened the gates for a wave of litigation from all sides.

Much of the court activity on Monday focused on trigger laws, adopted in 13 states that were designed to take effect swiftly upon last weeks Supreme Court ruling. Additional lawsuits could also target old anti-abortion laws that were left on the books and went unenforced under Roe. Newer abortion restrictions that were put on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling are also coming back into play.

Well be back in court tomorrow and the next day and the next day, Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which argued the case that resulted in the high court ruling, said Friday.

A Utah judge on Monday temporarily blocked that states near-total abortion ban, after Planned Parenthood challenged a trigger law there that contains narrow exceptions. In Louisiana, a judge in New Orleans, a liberal city in a conservative state, temporarily blocked enforcement of the states trigger-law ban on abortion, after abortion rights activists argued that it is unclear. The ruling is in effect pending a July 8 hearing.

At least one of the states three abortion clinics said it would resume performing procedures on Tuesday.

Were going to do what we can, said Kathaleen Pittman, administrator of Hope Medical Group for Women, in Shreveport. It could all come to a screeching halt.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican and staunch abortion opponent, vowed to fight the judges ruling and enforce the law.

We would remind everyone that the laws that are now in place were enacted by the people through State Constitutional Amendments and the LA Legislature, Landry tweeted Monday.