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The Supreme Court let stand a Texas ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. It is the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S.

Thursday, September 2, 2021 12:19 AM EST

The law, known as Senate Bill 8, amounts to a nearly complete ban on abortion in Texas, one that will further fuel legal and political battles over the future of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. The law makes no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape.

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