(WBAP/KLIF) — The Heartbeat Bill is officially in the hands of a federal appeals court. The Supreme Court has returned a lawsuit over Texas’ six-week abortion ban to a federal appeals court that has twice allowed the law to stay in effect.
Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday signed the court’s order that granted the request of abortion clinics for the court to act speedily. But the clinics wanted the case sent to U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, who’d previously blocked enforcement of the Texas abortion ban.
Texas has said it’ll seek to keep the case bottled up at the appeals court for the foreseeable future. The law prohibits abortions when the fetus registers a heartbeat, which typically occurs around six weeks.
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