Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions
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The law, which came into effect on September 1, 2021, prohibits abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks, before some women even know they are pregnant.
A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September.
The order that came on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early challenges.
In the weeks since the restrictions took effect, Texas abortion providers say the impact has been “exactly what we feared.”
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