Texas Supreme Court allows enforcement of 1925 abortion ban scrapped in Roe v. Wade

The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe v. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately in civil court.

That overrules a Harris County judge who had allowed abortion through six weeks to resume temporarily.

The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe v. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately in civil court.

That overrules a Harris County judge who had allowed abortion through six weeks to resume temporarily.

Texas is one of 13 states with a “trigger law” to ban abortion once Roe was scrapped. That law will take effect 30 days after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs is final, which could be another six or seven weeks.