Judge shields Texas clinics from anti-abortion group's suits

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A information defender opens the doorway to the Whole Women's Health Clinic successful Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. A Texas instrumentality banning astir abortions successful the authorities took effect astatine midnight, but the Supreme Court has yet to enactment connected an exigency entreaty to enactment the instrumentality connected hold. If allowed to stay successful force, the instrumentality would beryllium the astir melodramatic regularisation connected termination rights successful the United States since the precocious court's landmark Roe v. Wade determination legalized termination crossed the state successful 1973. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Posted at 10:13 PM, Sep 03, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-03 23:13:41-04

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A authorities justice has shielded, for now, Texas termination clinics from lawsuits by an anti-abortion radical nether a caller authorities termination law.

The law, which took effect Wednesday, allows anyone anyplace to writer anyone connected to an termination successful which cardiac enactment was detected successful the embryo.

However, authorities District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued a impermanent restraining bid Friday successful Austin that shields clinics from whistleblower lawsuits by the nonprofit radical Texas Right to Life, its legislative manager and 100 unidentified individuals.

The suit was filed Thursday by Planned Parenthood affiliates.

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