{"id":29980,"date":"2015-07-01T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=29980"},"modified":"2015-07-01T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:58:09","slug":"supreme-court-puts-texas-abortion-law-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/supreme-court-puts-texas-abortion-law-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Puts Texas Abortion Law on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_29982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29982\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/07\/abortion-doctor.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29982\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/07\/abortion-doctor.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by TipsTimesAdmin https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tipstimesadmin\/\" width=\"615\" height=\"345\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by TipsTimesAdmin https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tipstimesadmin\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The United States Supreme Court has stopped\u00a0implementation of a Texas abortion law that would require abortion clinics to provide the same safety standards for women seeking abortions as other outpatient surgery clinics are required to provide for their patients.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/29\/supreme-court-puts-texas-abortion-law-hold\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Texas Tribune:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with Texas abortion providers and temporarily put on hold a ruling that would have closed 10 of the state\u2019s 19 abortion facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 \u2014 and set to go into effect Wednesday \u2014 would have required Texas\u2019 abortion facilities to meet hospital-like standards, including\u00a0minimum sizes for rooms and doorways, pipelines for anesthesia and other infrastructure. The nine\u00a0Texas abortion clinics that meet those standards are all in\u00a0major metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">On June 9, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008990;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/09\/appeals-court-upholds-texas-abortion-restrictions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">upheld most provisions<\/a>\u00a0of the state\u2019s strict abortion law, and then\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008990;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/19\/federal-appeals-court-rejects-halt-abortion-restri\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">denied a request from abortion providers<\/a>\u00a0to delay the implementation of the abortion restrictions until they appealed to the high court.\u00a0Abortion providers then turned to the Supreme Court, asking it to intervene before the restrictions went into effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Attorneys for the abortion providers said that\u00a0the Supreme Court\u2019s order also blocked the state from enforcing a separate provision of the law\u00a0that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of an abortion clinic. The Supreme Court restored a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008990;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/09\/03\/eyes-on-sept-12-for-next-battle-abortion-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">lower court\u2019s ruling striking down<\/a>\u00a0both provisions of the law statewide, the attorneys said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court has stopped\u00a0implementation of a Texas abortion law that would require abortion clinics to provide the same safety standards for women seeking abortions as other outpatient surgery clinics are required to provide for their patients. 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