DALLAS — A Friday opinion by the Texas Supreme Court effectively ends abortion providers’ current federal challenge to the state’s new restrictions, after justices ruled Friday that medical and state officials do not have any power to enforce directly or indirectly Senate Bill 8.
Providers had indicated in arguments in the case that if the court ruled against them, it would essentially halt their current federal challenge to the law that bans abortion after approximately six weeks.
David Coale, an appellate lawyer in Dallas, said, “This answer likely ends the current federal court challenge to SB8, because this was the only remaining piece of the law still in the case after the Supreme Court’s ruling.”
