(Bloomberg) -- Texas abortion clinics can once again offer pill-induced abortions to all patients as well as surgical procedures to women whose pregnancies will be too far advanced by the time the governor’s emergency public-health decree expires, a federal appeals court said late Monday.
The New Orleans appeals court unexpectedly reversed course and denied Texas’s second bid to overturn an Austin judge’s order blocking the state’s directive banning nonessential medical procedures in order to conserve scarce supplies to treat coronavirus patients. Last week, the appeals court twice sided with Texas before fully analyzing the clinics’ arguments.
