Thu Jun 30, 2022 – 12:35 pm EDT
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HOUSTON (LifeSiteNews) – Texas has been stopped from completely banning abortion.
A Texas judge granted an injunction Tuesday to a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion law that prohibited all abortions in the state. The injunction follows an advisory issued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that said that the law was once again enforceable because of the Supreme Court (SCOTUS)’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning Roe.
State district judge Christine Weems granted the injunction following a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and two local law firms on behalf of a group of abortion providers.
Weems found that the enforcement of a pre-Roe law from 1925 that banned abortions and created criminal charges for abortion providers and those attempting to help women attain abortions would cause “probable, irreparable, and immanent injury” to abortion providers. The injunction will remain in place until a July
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