U.S. Justice Dept. sues Texas over state's new abortion law

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The Justice Department on Thursday sued Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the law is invalid, “to enjoin its enforcement, and to protect the rights that Texas has violated.”

“It is settled constitutional law that `a State may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability,”' the lawsuit reads. “But Texas has done just that.” That law, commonly known as the FACE Act, normally prohibits physically obstructing access to abortion clinics by blocking entrances or threatening to use force to intimidate or interfere with someone. It also prohibits damaging property at abortion clinics and other reproductive health centers.

The attorney general also argued the Texas law could expose some federal employees at different agencies across the government to civil liability for doing their jobs. Texas Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group and a driver of the new law, said Thursday in anticipation of the lawsuit that they were already working with other states to pass similar measures.

 

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