A federal judge has ordered Texas to suspend the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which banned most abortions statewide. The state is expected to appeal.
, which has said the restrictions were enacted in defiance of the U.S. Constitution. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the order “a victory for women in Texas and for the rule of law.”“For more than a month now, Texans have been deprived of abortion access because of an unconstitutional law that never should have gone into effect.
Some providers have said that Texas clinics are now in danger of closing while neighboring states struggle to keep up with awho must drive hundreds of miles. Other women, they say, are being forced to carry pregnancies to term. But Texas’ version had so far outmaneuvered the courts because it leaves enforcement to private citizens to file suits, not prosecutors, which critics say amounts to a bounty.
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