Earlier this year, after the Alabama legislature passed HB314, a law that, if in effect, would ban abortion in Alabama with very few exceptions, the state was threatened with consequences for Alabama as retribution from the rest of the nation.

Seemingly, those threats have yet to be fulfilled. However, on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson renewed interest in the law by issuing an injunction temporarily blocking the state of Alabama from enforcing the law.

Although some media outlets sneeringly reported the news as if it were “we told you this would not work,” State Rep. Terri Collins (R-Decatur), the author of the original legislation, called Thompson’s injunction “welcomed” during an appearance on Huntsville radio WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show.”

“This is expected,” she said. “This is welcomed. This is something in order to achieve what the goal of the bill was, which was to force the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade, then this bill had to move along the process. And that’s what it’s doing. I think that’s good.”

“It’s all a part of this process,” she added. “I think the language we put in that bill gives it the most strength we could to have the courts relook at the Roe v. Wade. We did what we could as far as to force that, and now the attorney general will be defending it. I hope that it continues to move along the process.”

Collins also agreed that the threats that came at the time of the bill’s original passage could be described as “hollow.”

“Hollow threats from just really vocal people,” Collins said. “I don’t think we saw any of those really happen or come true. For any that did, on the flip side, there were many people – I was also getting lots of positive. They were wanting to move their businesses here because of the stand we were making. So, whichever side you were on – if you were very vocal, I think that’s who we were hearing from.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University, the editor of Breitbart TV and host of “The Jeff Poor Show” from 2-5 p.m. on WVNN in Huntsville.