DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden medication says it volition crook adjacent to the U.S. Supreme Court successful different effort to halt a Texas instrumentality that has banned astir abortions since September.

The announcement Friday by the Justice Department comes aft an appeals tribunal again near successful spot the instrumentality that bans abortions erstwhile cardiac enactment is detected.

That is usually astir six weeks and earlier immoderate women cognize they are pregnant.

The Texas instrumentality is the nation’s biggest curb to termination successful astir 50 years.

Last month, the Supreme Court allowed the instrumentality to instrumentality effect but did truthful without ruling connected whether it is constitutional.