Texas abortion clinics had challenged a 2013 state law and regulations that cut the number of abortion providers in half, to roughly 20. The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Texas law regulating abortion clinics, delivering a 5-3 decision that was the high court’s first major foray into the abortion issue in nine years. Alito said the Texas law was designed to prevent similarly shoddy medical practices from remaining open. The Center for Reproductive Rights had sued Texas, on behalf of a coalition of abortion clinics. The court had last ruled on abortion in a 2007 case, upholding the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Source: Fox News June 27, 2016 14:13 UTC