A federal judge Friday questioned Texas’s defense of a new abortion law that is the most restrictive in the U.S. and which has significantly limited the procedure in the state
that is the most restrictive in the U.S. and which has significantly limited the procedure in the state.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin held a three-hour virtual hearing on a request by the Justice Department to block the law, which bans abortions after about the sixth week of pregnancy—far sooner than current Supreme Court precedent allows and sometimes before a woman realizes she is pregnant.
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