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.
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