A Harris County ruled on Tuesday that Texas providers at some clinics can temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy.
The ruling comes a day after about a dozen abortion providers filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas over its pre-Roe laws that Attorney General Ken Paxton said could now be enforced.
Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision overturning Dobbs v. Jackson under the Roe v. Wade precedent, Paxton issued an advisory stating providers could be criminally liable for performing abortions, citing a 1925 Texas statute that prohibited abortions. The statute was never repealed but nullified when the Roe v. Wade decision was made.