The Texas Supreme Court will get to decide if state professional licensing board members have the power to enforce a law that prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
A split Fifth Circuit panel sent the state’s top court a question that could end a federal lawsuit over the constitutionality of a ban on abortions once cardiac activity is detected.
“The unresolved questions of state law must be certified to the Texas Supreme Court and further briefing will await that court’s decision on certification,” the Monday opinion by Judge Edith H. Jones said
The U.S. Supreme Court in December ...
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