“A federal judge invalidated a major Texas abortion regulation that would have shut down 19 licensed clinics next week, ruling that it created ‘a brutally effective system’ designed to close abortion facilities, not to improve women’s health as state lawyers had argued,” the Austin American Statesman reports.
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