A federal judge has temporarily blocked a restrictive new Louisiana abortion law from being enforced, but the extent of the temporary restraining order remains unclear.

The law requires any doctor who provides abortion care in Louisiana to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital. Similar measures have been passed in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, admitting privileges requirements are a popular method of anti-choice politicians to restrict women’s access to abortion services, since such privileges can often be impossible to obtain due to individual hospital policies.

“Today’s ruling ensures Louisiana women are safe from an underhanded law that seeks to strip them of their health and rights,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “Politicians cannot be given free rein to lie about their motives without recourse, and expect women and their families to pay the consequences.”

The Center is one of the groups representing two northwest Louisiana clinics, one suburban New Orleans clinic, and the doctors at those clinics, in their challenge to the law.

What remains unclear is whether Judge John deGravelles has blocked all enforcement of the law, or merely enforcement against the individuals and clinics currently bringing the lawsuit.

“Any enforcement” of the Act “is enjoined until a hearing is held,” Judge deGravelles ordered. But in the next sentence he ruled, “plaintiffs will not be subject to the penalties and sanctions allowed in the statute at this time or in the future for practicing without the relevant admitting privileges during the applications process. Plaintiffs will be allowed to operate lawfully while continuing their efforts to obtain privileges.”

According to the Associated Press, the state Health Department (the agency responsible for enforcing the law) believes the injunction only applies to the plaintiffs.

“That doesn’t mean the state is on Monday just going to go out and try to enforce the act,” a spokesperson for Louisiana’s Health and Hospitals Secretary told the AP. “I have no indication that’s the state’s intention.”