Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to ease pandemic-related ban
Texas and other red states have sought to restrict the procedure during the coronavirus emergency.
By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN
04/11/2020
Abortion rights advocates asked the Supreme Court on Saturday night to overturn part of the Texas governor’s sweeping ban on abortions during the coronavirus pandemic — the first of similar restrictions to reach the high court.
Texas and several Republican-led states that have long led the legal battle to restrict abortion have sought to cut off access as the health crisis escalated in recent weeks, contending the procedure would drain medical resources. The new petition to the Supreme Court sets up a key test of how the more conservative roster of judges will address the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.