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class="cell w-8 main_column"> <article class="last"> <header> <h1>Supreme Court Puts Texas Abortion Law on Hold</h1> <ul class="meta separator"><li class="byline"> by <a href="/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/about/staff/alexa-ura/" rel="author">Alexa Ura</a></li><li><time datetime="Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:53:44 -0500" title="2015-06-29 14:53"> June 29, 2015 </time></li><li class="comments"><a class="comments" href="/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/29/supreme-court-puts-texas-abortion-law-hold/comments/"><span class="value">35</span><span class="label">Comments</span></a></li></ul> </header> <aside> <ul class="social_links"> <li class="comment"> <a href="/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/29/supreme-court-puts-texas-abortion-law-hold/comments/" title=""> <i class="icon-comments-alt"></i> <span>Comment</span> </a> </li> <li class="republish"> <a href="/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/content/republish/88672/"> <i 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The nine</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6836d2f0-40e6-dc9c-1273-3f2c2331fb13" style="line-height: 1.35;"></span><span style="line-height: 1.35;"> Texas abortion clinics that meet those standards are all in <span>major metropolitan areas.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;">On June 9, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals </span><a style="line-height: 1.35;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150724204940/https://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/09/appeals-court-upholds-texas-abortion-restrictions/">upheld most provisions</a><span style="line-height: 1.35;"> of the state's strict abortion law, and then </span><a style="line-height: 1.35;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150724204940/https://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/19/federal-appeals-court-rejects-halt-abortion-restri/">denied a request from abortion providers</a><span style="line-height: 1.35;"> to delay the implementation of the abortion restrictions until they appealed to the high court. </span><span style="line-height: 1.35;">Abortion providers then turned to the Supreme Court, asking it to intervene before the restrictions went into effect.</span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;">Attorneys for the abortion providers said that </span><span style="line-height: 1.35;">the Supreme Court's order also blocked the state from enforcing a separate provision of the law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of an abortion clinic. The Supreme Court restored a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/03/eyes-on-sept-12-for-next-battle-abortion-trial/" target="_blank">lower court's ruling striking down</a> both provisions of the law statewide, the attorneys said.</span></p><div class="ad_container ad_container--adify"> <div class="ad adunit mobile tablet standard" data-adunit="TexasTribune_Content_StoryPage_InsideStory_468x60"> </div> </div> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6836d2f0-40d7-6c7d-fa5a-5e41168aced0">The appellate court had carved out an exception from most of the hospital-like standards for the Whole Woman’s Health clinic in McAllen and</span> granted one of the McAllen clinic’s doctors a reprieve from the admitting privileges requirement.</p> <p>“The justices have preserved Texas women’s few remaining options for safe and legal abortion care for the moment," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of Texas abortion providers. "Now it’s time to put a stop to these clinic shutdown laws once and for all."</p> <p>The Texas attorney general's office has argued that the abortion restrictions are reasonable measures and that they are meant to improve women's health.</p> <p>Republican Gov. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/directory/greg-abbott/">Greg Abbott</a>, the state's former attorney general, said Texas would continue fighting for "higher-quality healthcare standards" and the unborn, and that he was confident the Supreme Court would rule in the state's favor.</p> <p><span>The abortion law "was a constitutional exercise of Texas’ lawmaking authority that was correctly and unanimously upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals," Abbott said in a statement.</span></p> <p>The high court voted 5-4 to put the ruling on hold, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito voting against the delay.</p> <p dir="ltr">Attorneys for the abortion providers had told the high court that the ruling would create "a severe shortage of abortion services" and that it would be difficult to increase “operational capacities” at remaining clinics because of how hard it is for doctors to obtain admitting privileges.</p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">The admitting privileges provision closed about half of the 41 abortion facilities that were operating in the state before the restrictions went into effect.</span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;">The abortion providers must still file their appeal to the Supreme Court, which is not scheduled to hear arguments until October, when its next term begins.</span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;"><span>The Supreme Court previously</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150724204940/http://www.texastribune.org/2014/10/14/us-supreme-court-puts-abortion-law-provision-hold/" target="_blank"> intervened</a><span> in the abortion lawsuit. 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