In a 113-page ruling blocking Texas’ anti-abortion law, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman writes that the law violates a person’s right to an abortion. 'He does all the work that was too hard for the Supreme Court to do,' Slate's Dahlia Lithwick says.
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