{"id":39591,"date":"2021-09-06T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39591"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:08:54","slug":"doj-says-it-will-protect-women-seeking-abortions-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39591","title":{"rendered":"DOJ says it will &#8216;protect&#8217; women seeking abortions in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday said that it will protect women who are seeking abortions in the state of Texas amid\u00a0turmoil following the passage of a controversial restrictive abortion law in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Attorney General\u00a0Merrick Garland\u00a0said that the department will explore \u201call options\u201d to challenge the new Texas law, adding that they will provide support for women in The Lone Star State who are still seeking abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department will provide support from federal law enforcement when an abortion clinic or reproductive health center is under attack. We have reached out to U.S. Attorneys\u2019 Offices and FBI field offices in Texas and across the country to discuss our enforcement authorities,\u201d Garland said in a statement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39592,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions\/39592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}