Abortions can temporarily resume in Texas after a judge on Tuesday blocked officials from enforcing a law that passed nearly 100 years ago that the state attorney general said is now back in effect following the Supreme Court’s decision last week.
Judge Christine Weems in Harris County issued a temporary injunction following a last-ditch lawsuit filed by pro-abortion groups to resume services after the nation’s highest court struck down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that argued women have the right to obtain abortions.
The order allows clinics to resume services, for now, in a state where abortion was already restricted to only up to six weeks of pregnancy under a Texas law that took effect in September. A later hearing is scheduled for July 12….