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 The U.S. Fifth Court of Appeal said the law could stay in effect
pending "expedited" further proceedings in the high profile legal
challenge.
The Texas abortion law, which took effect on Sept. 1, makes no
exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
It also lets ordinary citizens enforce the ban, rewarding them at
least $10,000 if they successfully sue anyone who helped provide an
abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected. Critics of the
law have said this provision enables people to act as anti-abortion
bounty hunters.
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 The Justice Department has
argued that the law impedes women from
exercising their constitutional right to
terminate a pregnancy that was recognized in the
Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which
legalized abortion nationwide.
The department also argued that the law
improperly interferes with the operations of the
federal government to provide abortion-related
services.
(Reporting by Noeleen Walder, Dan Whitcomb and
Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Tom Hogue and
Richard Pullin)
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