- Law bans abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detected
- Merrick Garland says bill designed to ‘nullify the constitution’
The Biden administration on Thursday sued Texas over the state’s extreme abortion law, which amounts to a near total ban on abortion, calling the law “clearly unconstitutional”.
US attorney general Merrick Garland said the law that went into effect last week after the supreme court refused to block it and bans almost all abortions in the state was one “all Americans should fear”.