Appeals Court Rules Against Alabama Abortion Restriction

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CBSDFW/AP) — A federal appeals court has blocked an Alabama law, similar to a Texas law that would have banned a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure.
The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s decision that the ban would cause Alabama women to lose access to abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The 2016 law banned the procedure known as dilation and evacuation abortions, in which the fetus is removed in pie