The Supreme Court declined to hear an effort to block Texas from enforcing a ban on abortions in emergency rooms.

The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The justices turned away the Justice Department's appeal of a lower court's decision that halted enforcement of the guidance in Texas, where a Republican-backed near-total ban on abortion is in effect

The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The Supreme Court kept in place a order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Texas's abortion restriction, allowing hospitals to deny certain emergency terminations that may violate state law.

The ruling comes a week after a lower state judge overturned Georgia’s six-week abortion ban.

The ban will resume while the court considers an appeal to a decision that had briefly restored greater access to abortions in the state.

On the first day of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court in an unsigned opinion upheld a lower court ruling that enforces Texas’ ban on certain emergency abortions. The Biden administration had sought to overturn the ban and enforce its policy requiring hospitals to perform the emergency, potentiall...