Maryland Attorney General Frosh Offers Support For DOJ Challenge Of Texas Abortion Law

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is offering his enactment for the Justice Department’s situation of the caller Texas instrumentality that bans abortions aft six weeks.

Frosh joined 24 different attorneys wide successful signing an amicus brief, filed Wednesday successful the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, successful enactment of the DOJ’s effort to temporarily halt the law.

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Another proviso of the Texas instrumentality allows backstage citizens to record civilian lawsuits against anyone who provides an termination aft six weeks oregon anyone who helps a pistillate get an abortion.

The little argues the caller instrumentality violates the astir five-decade aged precedent, established by the U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit Roe v. Wade, that abortions are ineligible earlier a gestation is viable.

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In a statement, Frosh specifically called retired the information of the instrumentality that allows for civilian suits.

“The caller Texas instrumentality is designed to terrorize women and their doctors. It puts bounties connected their heads if women workout their law rights, and it puts their wellness successful jeopardy,” helium said.

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The little besides claims that clinics New Mexico saw a crisp emergence successful appointments aft the instrumentality took effect, straining resources successful the state, and that different states are bracing for a akin influx patients from Texas.

CBS Baltimore Staff