and favoring the texas law, steven aden. he's senior counsel for alliance defending freedom. victory today, we'll start with you. tell us what the effect is of this ruling in a small sense, what happens in texas and in a broader sense what happens around the country? >> this was a tremendous victory today. it was just a clear out win. what that means for texas is that the clinics that are currently open in texas can stay open, they were threatened to be closed by this underhanded law, and also that other clinics would be able to reopen. you know, one of the things that happened with h.b.2 was that it devastated abortion acts in texas closing half which the court said was unconstitutional because they weren't justified on medical grounds. >> ifill: what tried to limit the scope of the abortion clinics. >> we believe it's a big disappointment and loss for women's health and safety. all texas was trying to do is regulate abortion the same way and manner as other similar outpatient abortion procedures. if you or i go in for a colonoscopy or a laparoscopy chances are our doctor wi