Abortion providers are trying to find a legal avenue that will allow them to directly challenge new restrictions that have effectively banned the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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Anti-abortion lawyers target those funding the procedure for potential lawsuits under new Texas law
Attorneys who helped design Texas’ novel abortion ban have asked a judge to allow them to depose the leaders of two abortion funds, seeking information about anyone who may have “aided or abetted” in a prohibited procedure.
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Texas tops the nation in teens who give birth multiple times
More than 1 in 6 teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 already had a child. Texas does not require sex education and has the strictest abortion law in the nation.
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Here’s a look at Justice Stephen Breyer’s legacy on Texas cases
The justice struck down a Texas-led challenge to the Affordable Care Act, wrote the majority opinion in a ruling that stopped abortion restrictions in 2013 and was the swing vote in a case that helped keep a Texas Capitol monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
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Planned Parenthood drops challenge to Lubbock’s abortion ban
The decision, hailed by abortion opponents as a victory, is another indication of how legal protections for abortion have been gutted in Texas.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
Supreme Court again declines to intervene in challenge to Texas abortion law
The case is currently before the Texas Supreme Court. Abortion providers were hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would reroute the case into federal district court, where a judge had previously blocked the law.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
Texas abortion law challenge heads to state’s supreme court, likely adding more delays to case
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision means it could take months before abortion providers’ challenge to the restrictive law returns to a federal court.
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State Government
Texas sues Planned Parenthood for $10 million in Medicaid payments
Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to claw back Medicaid payments made during the three years that Planned Parenthood was fighting in court to remain as a qualified health care provider.
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Texas 2022 Elections
Analysis: A Texas election in the shade of government’s third branch
Challenges to new Texas laws on voting, political districts and abortion are all pending in court, as is the state’s challenge to federal vaccine mandates. But until the courts rule, those laws remain in place — and they provide political fodder for the incumbents who support them.
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Texas abortion law likely to head to state supreme court, could delay decision by months
Lawyers for abortion providers argue the case should go to federal district court rather than the Texas Supreme Court, which could take months to issue a ruling.
