Fri Jul 15, 2022 – 6:34 pm EDT
AUSTIN (LifeSiteNews) — The state of Texas on Thursday sued the Biden administration for its new guidance ordering hospitals to perform abortions under certain circumstances even in pro-life states, arguing the federal government is seeking “to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) July 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
It’s no surprise that the Democrats and the leftwing media are having a meltdown over the pro-life lawsuit I filed today against the Biden Admin. https://t.co/G1SXXcQiMK
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) July 14, 2022
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The lawsuit challenges HHS guidance released just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case last month, thereby ending the federal “right to abortion” and returning the right to regulate abortion back to the states.
Texas is among a growing list of Republican-led states which have moved to
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