The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court ruling that allowed abortions to continue in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
The law is commonly referred to as a"heartbeat law" as it outlaws abortions once a heartbeat is detected in a fetus.
Abortion service providers throughout Texas were then forced to cancel abortion operations and alert those who had appointments for an abortion that they were unable to provide the service. Abortion rights demonstrators and an anti-abortion demonstrator argue after a Rally For Reproductive Freedom in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 26, 2022.
Almost immediately after the law went into effect, though, some abortion providers rushed to keep the practice legal. And their efforts were initially successful when a Houston judge issued an order earlier this week reassuring doctors and abortion service providers they would still be allowed to resume abortions.But, on Friday, abortions were outlawed again — for the second time in a week when the
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