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Supreme court refuses to block law
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A sharply divided supreme court on Tuesday
allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion
restrictions that opponents say have led more
than a third of the state's clinics to stop
providing abortions. The justices voted 5-4 to
leave in effect a provision requiring doctors who
perform abortions in clinics to have admitting
privileges at a nearby hospital. Prior to the U.
S. Supreme Court, the lower courts ruled that
abortion restrictions are allowed so long as they
do not impose an "undue burden" on a woman's
ability to obtain an abortion. Justice Antonin
Scalia, writing the majority opinion for the high
court order on Tuesday, said the justices may not
overturn a ruling, "unless that court clearly and
demonstrably erred. He wrote, in other words,
that the lower court did things properly and so
the law should be allowed to continue.
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