U.S. appeals court rules to keep Texas abortion ban in effect
Reuters
Published Oct 14, 2021 09:59PM ET
Updated Oct 15, 2021 12:31PM ET
(This October 14 story has corrected name of court in second paragraph)
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday refused a petition by the U.S. Department of Justice to put on hold Texas's restrictive abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit said the law could stay in effect pending "expedited" further proceedings in the high profile legal challenge.
The Texas abortion law, which took effect on Sept. 1, makes no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
It also lets ordinary citizens enforce the ban, rewarding them at least $10,000 if they successfully sue anyone who helped provide an abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected. Critics of the law have said this provision enables people to act as anti-abortion bounty hunters.
The Justice Department has argued that the law impedes women from exercising their constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy that was recognized in the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nationwide.
The department also argued that the law improperly interferes with the operations of the federal government to provide abortion-related services.
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