A federal judge in Texas blocked President Joe Biden‘s administration from enforcing its new health guidance in the GOP-dominated state that required medical facilities to provide emergency abortions to women regardless of state bans on the procedures.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, a Lubbock-based court, late Tuesday sided with Attorney General Ken Paxton that the Department of Health and Human Services‘ guidance was unauthorized and extended beyond the text of a tangential federal law.