Women’s health providers in Texas have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block sweeping anti-choice restrictions that have gutted abortion access in the state. A decision by a federal appeals court last week allowed hospital-style building requirements to go into immediate effect, shuttering all but eight abortion facilities in a state that previously had more than 40. It also forced a clinic in the Rio Grande Valley that had reopened under a lower-court’s decision last month to close again. Abortion patients who arrived at Whole Woman’s Health in the city of McAllen Friday were told the nearest legal abortion facility was now about four hours north. Whole Woman’s Health and other providers have filed an emergency application asking the high court to intervene, saying, “We are being forced to turn women away from safe, compassionate health care simply because of our politicians’ ideological agenda.”