A coalition of Texas-based women’s health clinics requested—and have received—a temporary injunction to enjoin the state from any immediate prosecutions against health care providers who perform abortions.

Whole Woman’s Health, the lead plaintiff, and others filed suit  in Harris County’s 269th District Court to head off an effort by Attorney General Kenneth Paxton, who issued an official advisory within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.