TEXAS ABORTION BAN

U.S. Supreme Court will consider Texas’ near-total abortion ban on an expedited timeline. The law remains in effect for now.

The high court agreed to hear the arguments quickly but declined to immediately block enforcement of the new law.

By Allyson Waller, The Texas Tribune
Posted 10/22/21

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to fast-track two Texas cases involving the state’s near-total ban on abortion, but it refused to halt the law from being enforced.

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