A federal judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of Texas’s strict new abortion law that prohibits the procedure after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The ruling on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, a Barack Obama-appointed judge, means Texas abortion providers can once again operate after about six weeks’ pregnancy without fear of being sued.
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