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Justice Department Asks Supreme Court to Halt Texas’s Near-Total Ban on Abortions

HeadlineOct 19, 2021

The U.S. Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to halt Texas’s near-total ban on abortions, after an appeals court overturned a stay on its enforcement last week. The conservative-led Supreme Court previously refused to halt the law before it first went into effect in September.

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