Federal Appeals Court Blocks Biden Admin’s Emergency Abortion Rule in Texas

The appeals court’s unanimous ruling marks a loss for the White House’s abortion agenda.

Pro-life activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. in June 2022, days before the Court repealed 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling blocking the Biden administration from enforcing federal guidance in Texas related to emergency abortions.

Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kurt Engelhardt, an appointee of President Donald Trump, penned the opinion, noting that the court declined “to expand the scope” of a federal statute to include enforcing abortions.