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AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Life won another victory in the Lone Star State on Friday as the Texas Supreme Court ordered a stay on a lower court’s ruling that blocked the enforcement of pre-Roe criminal prohibitions on abortion.
The higher court’s order comes in response to a request for an Emergency Motion filed Thursday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, after a lower court judge in Harris County had blocked enforcement of the State’s 1925 law against elective abortions until the Human Life Protection Act of 2021 takes effect. According to the 2021 Protection Act, anyone who performs or helps provide an abortion could be charged with a first-degree felony and a $100,000 penalty.
In an advisory letter issued after the Dobbs decision overturning Roe, Paxton stated that criminal prosecution against abortion providers did not need to wait until the Human Life Protection Act took effect. “Some prosecutors,” Paxton wrote, “may choose to immediately pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations of Texas abortion prohibitions predating
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