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U.S. Sues Texas to Block State’s Abortion Law

U.S. Sues Texas to Block State’s Abortion Law

The U.S. sued Texas to block a law that effectively bans abortions in the state after six weeks, calling it unconstitutional.

So far abortion providers in Texas have stopped providing services prohibited by the law, leaving women there “unacceptably and unconstitutionally deprived of abortion services,” Justice Department lawyers said in a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Austin.

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