U.S. judge blocks federal guidance on emergency abortions in Texas
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[August 24, 2022]
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas
late Tuesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing in the
Republican-led state new guidance requiring hospitals to provide
emergency abortions to women regardless of state bans on the procedure.
U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock agreed with
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services' guidance was unauthorized and went beyond the
text of a related federal law.
The judge declined to enjoin the guidance nationwide and instead only
barred HHS from enforcing it and its interpretation of the Emergency
Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act in Texas and against to
anti-abortion groups of doctors.
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Abortion rights protesters participate
in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court
opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade
abortion rights decision, in Houston, Texas, U.S., May 14, 2022.
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