Crucial Abortion Case Comes Before Supreme Court

The eight remaining justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are to hear arguments Wednesday on a case that could restrict a woman's access to a legal abortion. The court is to consider a challenge to a law passed in 2013 in the southwestern state of Texas that imposes strict and costly regulations on abortion clinics, and forces doctors who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges. The law has forced more than half of the state's abortion clinics to shutdown, and left hundreds...

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