Texas Law Spurs Gun-Rights Group to Side With Abortion Providers

A gun rights group is siding with abortion providers in the Texas dispute over the nation’s strictest abortion ban.

The law, S.B. 8, was designed with procedural quirks that are intended to insulate it from judicial review by allowing private citizens, not government officials, to enforce the ban. The move has been successful, allowing the law to go into effect for nearly two months and halting almost all abortions in the state after six weeks.

But Erik Jaffe, who filed the amicus brief on behalf of the nonprofit group Firearms Policy Coalition, fears the law could be used to ...