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Pitmans order blocks any officers of the state from enforcing the ban and explicitly prohibits said officers from accepting or docketing, maintaining, hearing, resolving, awarding damages in, enforcing judgments in, enforcing any administrative penalties in, and administering any lawsuit brought under the state law. CNN notes that The judge also ordered the state to take proactive steps to inform court officials, as well as private individuals seeking to enforce the ban, that the law is currently blocked under his order. In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland celebrate the decision, saying, todays ruling enjoining the Texas law is a victory for women in Texas and for the rule of law.

Unfortunately, thanks to the uniquely fucked-up nature of the law, abortion providers might not yet feel comfortable performing the procedure just yet. Per Bloomberg:

Crucially, S.B. 8 strips abortion providers of protection for procedures they perform when the law is blocked by a court order that is later overturned. That would seem to blunt the effectiveness of the temporary injunction U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued Wednesday night in Austin, in a suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department.

Each provider will need to make their own determination of whether to provide in the face of the threat that they could be sued for serving their patients retroactively,Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Unions Reproductive Freedom Project, told Bloomberg. She added that the retroactive provision is another cruel tactic designed to harass and intimidate pregnant Texans and their providers. But as the district court recognized, the retroactivity provision is on shaky legal ground and some providers have explicitly said that they will provide under an injunction.

About an hour after Pitman issued his ruling, Texas attorney general Ken Paxtonlate of arguing that forcing pregnant people to travel out of state for abortions has been great for commercefiled a notice to appeal the order to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is viewed as one of the most conservative in the country. Hence, reactions like these:

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