Abortion Clinics Can Stay Open as Top Court Blocks Texas Law
The Texas State Capitol building in Austin, Texas, on April 4, 2015.
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A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked Texas from enforcing its new restrictions on abortion clinics, giving a reprieve to about 10 facilities that were facing closure by July 1.
The order, issued on a 5-4 vote, will last at least until the high court decides whether to hear arguments in the case. Abortion-rights advocates say the rules would unconstitutionally deprive women of access to services by forcing more than half of Texas’s 19 clinics to close and leaving no facilities in the western half of the state.