U.S. Appeals Court Votes to Allow Oppressive Texas Abortion Ban to Remain in Effect
The 2-1 decision comes just a week after an Austin federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the law
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On Thursday night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit voted 2-1 to allow Texas’s highly restrictive abortion ban to remain in effect during the ongoing legal battle over the constitutionality of the punitive new legislation. Last week, Austin-based U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the enforcement of the Texas anti-abortion legislation, a decision which the same body of judges put on hold less than 48 hours later in response to an emergency request from the state of Texas to reinstate the law. On Monday of this week, the Department of Justice asked the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to pause enforcement of the abortion ban during its attempt to appeal the Texas legislation—a request which the court denied in their Thursday decision. And this is just what’s happened over the past two weeks!