NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana officials have agreed not to enforce several new restrictions on abortion pending a judge’s decision on whether to block the laws.

The restrictions include a requirement for a 72-hour waiting period for many women, and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure called dilation and evacuation. They were to take effect Aug. 1.

Two clinics and three doctors filed a July 1 lawsuit against the new laws.

In court records filed last week, the state sought more time to evaluate the lawsuit and agreed it won’t enforce the restrictions until a judge decides whether to grant a preliminary injunction blocking the law. That decision is months away. Baton Rouge-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Bourgeois Jr. signed an order Friday giving Louisiana until Dec. 16 to respond to the lawsuit.

Legislative supporters of the new laws say they were meant to safeguard women’s health. Opponents say they are unconstitutional hurdles for women seeking abortions.

The lawsuit was filed after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to impose medically unnecessary rules that place an undue burden on access to abortion. That decision overturned a Texas law requiring hospital admitting privileges for abortion doctors.

In Louisiana, the new laws would extend a 24-hour waiting period to 72 hours, although the 24-hour wait would remain for women living 150 miles or more from the nearest abortion provider.

The laws would ban “dilation and extraction,” a procedure used to avoid complications in second-trimester abortions, unless it’s deemed necessary to prevent “serious health risk” to the woman.

Other new rules would:

— require doctors who perform abortions to be either board-certified or certifiable in obstetrics and gynecology, or family medicine.

— require abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains.

— prohibit state and local government agencies from funding an abortion clinic or any entity that contracts with abortion clinics.