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Excerpt: "The Texas rule, requiring all abortion clinics to meet the building, equipment and staffing standards of hospital-style surgery centers, had been set to take effect on Monday."

The Hilltop Women's Reproductive Clinic in El Paso, Texas. (photo: Juan Carlos Llorca/AP)
The Hilltop Women's Reproductive Clinic in El Paso, Texas. (photo: Juan Carlos Llorca/AP)


Federal Judge Strikes Down Controversial Texas Abortion Law

By Erik Eckholm and Manny Fernandez, The New York Times

30 August 14

 

federal judge in Austin, Tex., blocked a stringent new rule on Friday that would have forced more than half of the state’s remaining abortion clinics to close, the latest in a string of court decisions that have at least temporarily kept abortion clinics across the South from being shuttered.

The Texas rule, requiring all abortion clinics to meet the building, equipment and staffing standards of hospital-style surgery centers, had been set to take effect on Monday. But in his opinion, Judge Lee Yeakel of the United States District Court in Austin said the mandate placed unjustified obstacles on women’s access to abortion without providing significant medical benefits.

The rule “is unconstitutional because it imposes an undue burden on the right of women throughout Texas to seek a pre-viability abortion,” he wrote.

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