Court Orders Enforcement Of TX Abortion Law

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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the immediate enforcement of a new Texas abortion law, Reuters reports:

The law, enacted in 2011, requires abortion providers to perform an ultrasound on pregnant women, show and describe the image to them, and play sounds of the fetal heartbeat.

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