Posted on 01/07/2016 12:32:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
From the Texas Tribune: Intervening in what could be a landmark decision, the Obama Administration, state and federal lawmakers and medical experts asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to overturn Texas' 2013 abortion law, which could shut down about half of the state's 19 remaining abortion clinics.
In 45 amicus briefs filed to the Supreme Court, opponents of the Texas abortion law known as House Bill 2 argued that restrictions under the law are unconstitutional because they impose an undue burden on women seeking abortions and would do little to improve women's health.
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The restrictions "do not serve -- in fact, they disserve -- the government's interest in protecting women's health, and they would close most of the clinics in Texas, leaving many women in that State with a constitutional right that 'exists in theory but not in fact,'" wrote U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. on behalf of the Obama administration....
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