The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide a major abortion case involving efforts by conservative states to regulate the procedure, promising what could be the court's most important pronouncement on the issue in two decades. The justices agreed to hear an appeal from abortion-rights advocates who are challenging a Texas law that imposed new medical regulations that would effectively shut down three-fourths of the state's clinics that perform abortions. The decision will likely to be handed down in June, just as the presidential campaign moves into high gear. Under a 2-year-old law that has not been fully enforced, Texas clinics that perform abortions must meet the...
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