
Appeals court holds hearing to debate next steps in Texas six-week abortion ban case
CNN
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is holding a hearing Friday on what should come next in abortion clinics' federal lawsuit challenging Texas' six-week abortion ban -- a lawsuit that the Supreme Court kept narrowly alive in a decision handed down last month.
The legal issues before the 5th Circuit are extremely technical. But at stake is whether abortion providers will have any shot in the coming months to get an order that would at least partially block enforcement of the law.
The clinics have already asked the Supreme Court to intervene yet again in the 5th Circuit's handling of the case. So far, the justices have not taken any action on that request, which was filed Monday night.

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