Supreme Court takes up Texas law banning most abortions

The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas instrumentality that has virtually ended termination successful the nation's 2nd largest authorities aft six weeks of pregnancy.

The justices are proceeding arguments Monday successful 2 cases implicit whether termination providers oregon the Justice Department tin equine national tribunal challenges to the law, which has an antithetic enforcement strategy its defenders reason shield it from national tribunal review.

In neither lawsuit is the constitutionality of the instrumentality straight astatine issue, but the information for some lawsuits is that the Texas prohibition conflicts with landmark Supreme Court rulings that forestall a authorities from banning termination aboriginal successful pregnancy.