Abortion Still Banned in Texas Despite Narrow Temporary Restraining Order

Today, four days after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, a Harris County judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking some government officials from enforcing its pre-Roe abortion bans against several abortion clinics.

However, an abortionist who commits an abortion in Texas today could be prosecuted for homicide according to a different Texas law not currently contested in court (Chapter 19 of the Texas Penal Code).

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