Court will weigh Texas law HB2,which imposes ‘ambulatory surgical middle’ requirements on clinics and could leave millions of women without accessThe US supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to one of the nation’s harshest abortion laws in what could be the most consequential case on abortion rights the court has taken in 23 years.
The law, known as HB2, or is a Texas measure passed in 2013 that has since led to the closure of more than half the state’s abortion clinics. Out of the hundreds of new abortion restrictions lawmakers bear passed since 2010,few bear had such a profound impact on abortion access in a single state.
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Source: theguardian.com