Judge Strikes Down Key Provision of Texas Anti-Choice Law

In what reproductive justice advocates are hailing as a partial victory, a federal court struck down Monday a provision of the controversial Texas HB 2 anti-choice law that would have made abortion inaccessible for a third of all Texas women.

Yet the ruling upheld the bill’s provision for reduced access to medical abortions.

U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel threw out the requirement that abortion providers have admitting privileges at a local hospital—a provision that would have drastically cut access and was set to be implemented October 29.

The judge ruled the provision unconstitutional because it “places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus and is thus an undue burden to her,” the Washington Post reports.

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However, the judge did not block provisions in the bill that drastically cut access to medication abortions by forcing patients to follow FDA protocol that critics charge flouts best practice established by more recent scientific advances.

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