The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dealt a final blow to a legal challenge of the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The state's high court said licensing officials are not responsible for enforcing the state's near-total ban on abortion, effectively ending the challenge brought by abortion providers across the state. "There is nothing left," said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which led the challenge against the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8. "This case is effectively over with respect to our challenge to the abortion ban." Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the state's "major victory." "This measure, which has saved thousands of unborn babies, remains fully in effect, and the pro-abortion plaintiffs’ lawsuit against the state is essentially finished," Paxton said on Twitter. Meanwhile, abortion providers decried the opinion as a failure of the court system, arguing that while the law has reduced the number of abortions in the state, demand for the procedure has stayed the same. To read more, click the link in our bio.