Tuesday 28 June 2022 09:42 PM Texas judge BLOCKS state's pre-Roe ban on abortions with two months until ... trends now

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A judge in Harris County, Texas temporarily blocked the state's pre-Roe abortion ban from taking effect on Tuesday. 

The judge's order was in response to a challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) arguing that a ban on abortions written before 1973 was 'repealed and unenforceable.' 

Under the temporary restraining order, abortions in the Lone Star State can be performed up to six weeks in pregnancy, at least for now - the order lasts until a hearing on July 12, at which point the judge will decide whether to end it. 

The ruling on the 1925 pre-Roe ban does not affect the state's 'trigger law,' a law the legislature passed stating that abortion would be made illegal upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The trigger law, passed in 2021 in anticipating of the high court's decision, will take effect in about two months. 

The pre-Roe ban states that those who perform abortion procedures can be punished with two to five years in prison. The law had never

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