Renewed Showdown Over Texas Anti-Choice Law Highlights State-by-State Battle for Abortion Access
October 30, 2013
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14:13Now PlayingRenewed Showdown Over Texas Anti-Choice Law Highlights State-by-State Battle for Abortion Access
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as posted by the channelA legal battle is being waged in Texas over the controversial new antichoice law that inspired a people's filibuster over the summer. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked a federal appeals court judge to immediately reinstate a key part of the new law a day after it was ruled unconstitutional by a lower court judge. On Monday, District Judge Lee Yeakel struck down the provision requiring onerous hospital admitting privileges for abortion doctors. But Yeakel upheld another provision of the law that requires doctors to use a specific protocol for nonsurgical, pillinduced abortions a protocol even the judge himself acknowledged is "assuredly more imposing" and "clearly more burdensome" to women. That provision, and the law's ban on abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization, both went into effect on Tuesday. We discuss the impact of the Texas law and the national landscape of abortion access with RH Reality Check legal analyst Jessica Mason Pieklo, author of "Crow After RoeHow 'Separate But Equal' Has Become the New Standard in Women's Health and How We Can Change That."
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