HOUSTON, Aug 19 ― The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a Texas law banning the most common abortion procedure used by doctors for terminating second-trimester pregnancies, overturning an earlier decision from a three-judge panel of the same court. The decision marks the first time...
HOUSTON, Aug 19 ― The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a Texas law banning the most common abortion procedure used by doctors for terminating second-trimester pregnancies, overturning an earlier decision from a three-judge panel of the same court.
A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit last October sided with abortion rights activists in affirming a 2017 lower-court decision that struck down the Texas law as unconstitutional and temporarily barred its enforcement.
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