Texas has grabbed the spotlight lately, but other meaningful challenges to states’ abortion laws are still winding their way through the federal courts.
The validity of state laws banning abortions after six weeks’ gestation and those sought because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome will be argued this week in the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Eleventh and Eighth Circuits.
The arguments come just a few weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court will hear debate in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., a case testing Mississippi’s law banning abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation. The top court announced ...