Texas’ all-Republican Supreme Court appeared divided Tuesday as it considered whether judges or the state legislature should decide the scope of any exemption to the state’s near-total ban on abortions.
A packed courtroom in Austin watched the high court grapple with that question Tuesday. The case has major implications in a pro-life state firmly controlled by conservative decision-makers who quickly enacted a near-total abortion ban after the US Supreme Court struck down federal abortion protections.
No matter how the court rules, it will remain illegal in Texas to perform an abortion except for when a pregnancy places ...
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