{"id":5441,"date":"2014-03-28T05:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2014-04-01T01:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:07:54","slug":"critics-vow-to-keep-fighting-after-us-appeals-court-upholds-texas-abortion-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/28\/critics-vow-to-keep-fighting-after-us-appeals-court-upholds-texas-abortion-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics vow to keep fighting after US appeals court upholds Texas&#8217; abortion restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5442\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/601px-US-CourtOfAppeals-9thCircuit-Seal.svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5442\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/601px-US-CourtOfAppeals-9thCircuit-Seal.svg.png\" width=\"601\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/601px-US-CourtOfAppeals-9thCircuit-Seal.svg.png 601w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/601px-US-CourtOfAppeals-9thCircuit-Seal.svg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/601px-US-CourtOfAppeals-9thCircuit-Seal.svg-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas\u2014A federal appeals court has upheld Texas&#8217; tough new restrictions on abortion, meaning Dr. Lester Minto&#8217;s clinic near the Mexican border will stay closed.<\/p>\n<p>But Minto, who has been providing abortions for three decades, insists he&#8217;ll keep helping women who call his shuttered clinic.<\/p>\n<p>His is among at least 19 clinics that have closed statewide because of a new law that includes some of the nation&#8217;s strictest limitations on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld those restrictions Thursday, overturning a lower court that ruled parts of the law were unconstitutional and served no medical purpose. The appeals court said the law &#8220;on its face&#8221; doesn&#8217;t impose undue burden on a woman&#8217;s life or health.<\/p>\n<p>The case is likely to end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas\u2014A federal appeals court has upheld Texas&#8217; tough new restrictions on abortion, meaning Dr. Lester Minto&#8217;s clinic near the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1475],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-restrictions-on-abortion","mauthors-will-weissert","mauthors-christopher-sherman","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}