Appeals court lets Texas enforce law that restricts abortions
Source: USA Today
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A federal appeals court Thursday allowed Texas to immediately begin enforcing tough new abortion restrictions that will effectively close all but seven abortion facilities in America's second most-populous state.
A panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court in New Orleans stayed a lower judge's ruling while it considers the overall constitutionality of key portions of Texas' sweeping 2013 abortion law, which Republican Gov. Rick Perry and other conservatives say is designed to protect women's health.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled in August that part of the law requiring Texas clinics to spend millions of dollars on hospital-level upgrades was less about safety than making access to abortion difficult.
Yeakel's ruling in Austin suspended the upgrades requirement. But Texas is appealing, and asked the appeals court to let it enforce the law during that process clearing the way for the panel's ruling.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/02/texas-abortion-law/16608857/
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(6,241 posts)At noon on Friday in protest of this assault on women's health care. Austin and surrounding people are all invited!!! Let's pull a Hong Kong on their undemocratic asses!
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(17,656 posts)When will Texas come in to the 21st century and stop their war on women!!