Originally published on http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640350/s/47164dc2/sc/7/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A60C10A0Cus0Ccourt0Eupholds0Etexas0Elaw0Ecriticized0Eas0Eblocking0Eaccess0Eto0Eabortions0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm WACO, Tex. — A federal appellate court upheld some of the toughest provisions of a Texas abortion law on Tuesday, putting 13 of the state’s abortion clinics at risk of permanently shutting their doors, which would leave the nation’s second-most populous state with eight abortion providers.