Texas may halt drug-induced abortions and abortions for women who are 18 weeks pregnant as of Tuesday under the state’s emergency coronavirus order, the Fifth Circuit said Monday.
The federal appeals court granted the state’s request for a writ of mandamus and partially vacated a temporary restraining order that prohibited the state from enforcing the order that abortion providers said imposed a blanket ban on abortions.
This is the second time the Fifth Circuit has stopped the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas from prohibiting the state from treating abortion as a nonessential medical procedure that must ...
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