The Supreme Court on Friday set the stage for its most important pronouncement on abortion in two decades, agreeing to hear a dispute over efforts by some conservative states to regulate the procedure. The justices accepted an appeal from abortion-rights advocates who are challenging a Texas law that imposed new medical regulations that would in effect shut down three-fourths of the state's abortion-performing clinics. The decision is 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 standards of an outpatient surgical center and have doctors who...
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