A federal judge in Austin, Texas decided on Friday against a stricter rule that requires abortion clinics to meet hospital-level standards, which may compel many of these places to shut down.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled against the new abortion law passed by GOP-led lawmakers that mandates abortion clinics to meet equipment, building and personnel standards similar to hospitals.

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According to Yeakel, the Texas legislations, which was supposed to take effect on Monday, lays unfair difficulties for women in accessing abortion and gives minimal medical benefits.

"[The rule] is unconstitutional because it imposes an undue burden on the right of women throughout Texas to seek a pre-viability abortion," he stated on his 21-page ruling revealed on Friday.

He also cited several Republican-made rules on abortion stating that requirements such as a 24-hour waiting period once a woman seeks out abortion services and the mandatory sonograms explaining that the rules were only made to "close existing abortion clinics."

The decision received praise from abortion advocates as disappointed Texas lawmakers promised to make an appeal on the matter at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

GOP Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst expressed his dissatisfaction with the judge's decision stating that his ruling destabilizes lawmakers' efforts to enhance health care for women through heightened standards in abortion clinics in Texas.

Abortion has been a constitutional right for Americans since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling as clinic operators and owners dub the tougher restriction a 'backdoor effort to outlaw abortions.'

"The evidence has been stacking up against the state and against the politicians who so cynically passed these laws in the name of safety," Whole Woman's Health Chief Executive Officer Amy Hagstrom Miller told the Associated Press.

She also applauded Judge Yeakel's decision citing that the requirement is 'excessive' and is 'not based in good medicine.'

Miller's company is one of the clinics that will be affected should the stricter rules be imposed in Texas.

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