Texas Abortion Clinics Withdraw Emergency Supreme Court Plea After Appeals Court Allows Medical Abortions

Texas Abortion Clinics Withdraw Emergency Supreme Court Plea After Appeals Court Allows Medical Abortions
Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrives for his COVID-19 press conference at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on March 29, 2020. Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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After a federal appeals court issued an order allowing some so-called medication abortions to proceed in Texas, abortion advocates have withdrawn their request to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay on Texas’s temporary ban on most abortions, which had been justified as part of CCP virus-containment measures.

The litigation between abortionists and state officials has been bouncing back and forth between federal judges at the district and appellate levels for weeks now.