The 2-1 decision comes just a week after an Austin federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the law
lawsuits against any person or entity that helps a pregnant person get an abortion after six weeks.
“A person’s right under the Constitution to choose to obtain an abortion prior to fetal viability is well established,” wrote Judge Robert L. Pitman . “Fully aware that depriving its citizens of this right by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, the State contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme to do just that.
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