Texas’s Abortion Law Defense to Get Boost from Private Citizens

Three Texas residents and a man who already filed a lawsuit against a physician who allegedly violated the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks will get a chance to argue in federal court why the law should remain in force.

Erick Graham, Jeff Tuley, Mistie Sharp, and Oscar Stilley won permission to present oral arguments Friday at a hearing on the U.S.'s motion for a preliminary injunction in a case contesting the validity of a law that gives private citizens the right to enforce it.

The case involves one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, as ...