Abortion providers in Texas have filed a federal lawsuit to block an anti-choice rule they say could shut down all but six remaining abortion clinics in the state. The provision, which takes effect in September, requires abortion providers to meet hospital-style building requirements. It was passed as part of the sweeping anti-choice bill challenged by Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis and a people’s filibuster last summer. The new lawsuit also seeks to immediately block the law’s requirement that abortion providers obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital as it applies to two clinics in McAllen and El Paso, which are among the last providers in their communities. The McAllen clinic was recently forced to close, leaving the poorest part of the state without a legal abortion provider. In a statement, the Center for Reproductive Rights said: “We filed this lawsuit to stop the second-largest state in the nation from plunging millions of women back into the darkness and grave danger of illegal abortion.”