Supreme Court strikes down abortion restrictions
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court delivered its most significant ruling on abortion in a generation Monday (June 27), striking down restrictions on Texas clinics and doctors that threatened to make the procedure more difficult for women to access.
The divided court, acting on the last day of a term in which it became shorthanded after the death ofJustice Antonin Scalia, ruled five-three that the Texas law’s restrictions go beyond the type permitted under the court’s 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
