2nd Suit Filed Challenging Texas’ New Abortion Law
An advocacy group filed another federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new provision of Texas’ tough restrictions on abortion, less than a week after an appeals court reversed a previous suit and found that the stricter limits don’t impose an undue burden on women’s health.
The Center for Reproductive Rights’ suit is the first to challenge part of a new state law that doesn’t take effect until Sept. 1, but mandates that all abortions, including those induced via medication, take place in an ambulatory surgical center.
The New York-based center says just six abortion clinics in Texas currently meet those standards and that upgrades to do so are so costly that only about three would be able to meet them by the fall, leaving fewer than 10 clinics in a state with 13 million women.