Texas judge grants permission for an abortion in challenge to state-wide ban
A JUDGE has given a Texas woman permission to have an abortion in the first major challenge to a state ban on abortion brought in last year.
Over a dozen US states have banned abortions since the US Supreme Court overturned 1973’s Roe v Wade judgement last year, ending abortion access as a federal right.
Texas’s ban is among the country’s strictest, with a potential life sentence for doctors who carry out abortions.
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