Employees were the only people at Planned Parenthood Women’s Health Center in Lubbock, Texas on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled on Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled.By BETSY BLANEY
Associated Press
and CHRIS TOMLINSON
Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Texas – The only abortion clinic in a 300-mile swath of West Texas can resume taking appointments today, after a federal judge struck down new restrictions that would have effectively shuttered it and at least a dozen other clinics across the state.