Planned Parenthood wins a victory in battle over new Texas anti-abortion law

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A Texas judge on Friday temporarily barred an anti-abortion group from suing Planned Parenthood to enforce a near-total ban on abortion in the state, handing the nation’s largest abortion provider a small victory in the bitter legal fight.

Travis County District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble granted Planned Parenthood a temporary restraining order against the anti-abortion group, Texas Right to Life, blocking the group and its allies from using an unusual mechanism of the Texas law that enables private citizens to sue anyone who provides or “aids or abets” an abortion after six weeks.