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The Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to block Texas' new abortion law while a challenge to it moves forward, an official said.

Friday, October 15, 2021 1:26 PM EST

The Texas law, one of the strictest in the country, bans abortions when cardiac activity is detected, at around six weeks of pregnancy, a time when women may not yet know they are pregnant. It also makes no exceptions for rape or incest.

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