Texas Abortion Law Heads to State Courts as Legal Contest Widens

Abortion providers in Texas are seeing some success in state-court lawsuits brought to derail a law giving private citizens a right to sue for alleged violations of its ban on abortions after about six weeks.

Three Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas won a temporary restraining order blocking Texas Right to Life, its legislative director John Seago, and several unnamed defendants from suing them to enforce S.B. 8’s ban on abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected.

This state-court suit and others like it may be the “best” option at this point to get to a decision on the law’s validity ...