In flurry of court activity, rulings on abortion bans mixed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In Tennessee, the action by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on a six-week ban came ahead of a trigger law that's expected to further restrict abortion by mid-August, according to a legal interpretation by the state's attorney general.
39% : But a judge in Houston, a Democratic city in a conservative state, blocked enforcement for now of an even stricter law that calls for a statewide ban on virtually all abortions.
35% : The dismissal of a case in Utah led lawmakers there to say that a 2019 law banning abortion after 18 weeks of gestation would now go into effect, though it was not immediately clear if that was the case.
26% : A day earlier, a judge blocked enforcement of a near-total ban on abortion for at least two weeks.

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