Texas Abortion Law Is ‘Sabotage’ of Ensured Right, U.S. Says
- U.S. seeks to revive injunction against the law during appeal
- Texas is fighting to permanently lift a court hold on the ban
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The Biden administration urged a federal appeals court to reinstate a judge’s order blocking Texas’s new ban on most abortions, arguing the strictest such law in the nation flouts more than 200 years of precedent.
The law barring most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they’re pregnant, far exceeds the power granted to state legislatures under the Constitution, the Justice Department said late Monday in a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.