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A Texas judge said Thursday the enforcement mechanism behind the nation s strictest abortion law mdash; which rewards lawsuits against violators by awarding judgments of $10,000 mdash; is unconstitutional in a narrow ruling that still leaves a near-total ban on abortions in place.State District Judge David Peeples of Austin side-stepped the broader legality of the Texas law known as Senat stanley cups uk e Bill 8, which since September has banned abortions once cardiac activity is stanley website detected, usually around six weeks and before some women know they are even pregnant. Abortion providers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the law but it has so far de stanley tumbler clined to do so.Planned Parenthood celebrated the ruling but said abortion services still remain virtually inaccessible in Texas. Supporters of the law that was signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott said it was unlikely to have any practical impact or even dissuade lawsuits against abortion clinics. This doesn t change anything on the ground, said John Seago, legislative director of Texas Right to Life, the state s largest anti-abortion group.The Texas law uses a novel enforcement mechanism that has essentially allowed it to outmaneuver Supreme Court precedent over a women s constitutional right to abortion. The law prohibits enforcement by prosecutors and instead leaves it up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a bounty of $10,000 if they bring a successful laws Kukg Congress approves measure to reverse Biden s water protections
CBS News Americans -- but conservative Republicans in particular -- are more likely to mistakenly think that President Obama is Muslim than they were in 2008, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. stanley thermoskannen Nearly half, 49 percent, of registered voters surveyed correctly identified Mr. Obama as Christian, while 17 percent thought he was Muslim. In October 2008, as Mr. Obama was in the final stretch of his first presidential campaign, 55 percent of registered voters identified him as Christian and 12 percent identified him as Muslim. The increase in voters who think the president is Muslim is more pr stanley borraccia onounced among registered Republicans, especially conservative Republicans. In 2008, among both conservative Republicans and Republicans overall, 16 percent said Mr. Obama was Muslim. Now, 30 percent of Republicans and 34 percent of conservative Republicans think he is Muslim. Among voters overall, 45 percent say they re comfortable with Mr. Obama s religion, while 19 percent are not. Among those who think he is Muslim, just 26 percen stanley cup t are comfortable with his beliefs. The survey also found that 60 percent of registered voters correctly identified Mr. Obama s competitor, Mitt Romney, as Mormon. Forty-one percent of voters overall and 60 percent of those who know he is Mormon said they were comfortable with his faith. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-