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The Latest: Texas governor: Abortion ruling endangers lives

Amy Hagstrom Miller, second from right, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, with Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup, far right, as the justices struck down the strict Texas anti-abortion restriction law known as HB2. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state. The case is Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Amy Hagstrom Miller, second from right, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, with Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup, far right, as the justices struck down the strict Texas anti-abortion restriction law known as HB2. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state. The case is Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

By Associated Press June 27, 2016 1 min read

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Latest on the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Texas’ strict regulation of abortion clinics (all times local):

11:10 a.m.

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott says the Supreme Court’s decision striking down his state’s strict regulation of abortion clinics “subjects more innocent life to being lost.”

In a statement Monday, the Republican said the ruling “erodes states’ lawmaking authority to safeguard the health and safety of women.”

The justices voted 5-3 in support of Texas clinics, which argued the regulations were an attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion.

The law was approved by Texas’ Republican-controlled Legislature in 2013, and lawmakers in other conservative states have since passed similar measures.

Abbott said his state’s goal remains “to protect innocent life, while ensuring the highest health and safety standards for women.”