The stay is for only a few weeks….
And if The Governor there goes to the states’s Supreme Court to over rule?
It probably will be….
The Texas Supreme Court rubber stamps anything and everything Gov Abbott asks them to….
The State judge has used her state’s high court’s past rulings on taking time to make judicial rulings ….
They’ll see how this goes….
The Texas law gives enforcement authority to private citizens, allowing them to sue those who perform or aid the procedure in violation of the measure, and provides for $10,000 for a successful lawsuit.
It’s unclear how long Texas Right to Life and the other defendants might ultimately be blocked from enforcing the law against Planned Parenthood.
Judge Gamble’s temporary restraining order is due to expire in two weeks, but her Friday order also announced a Sept. 13 hearing which could lead to the pause on the anti-abortion group’s enforcement authority being extended.
Texas Right to Life said it remained “undaunted” despite Friday’s ruling.
“This lawsuit will not stop the work of Texas Right to Life,” the group’s vice president Elizabeth Graham said in a statement. “Estimates are that approximately 150 babies per day are being saved because of Texas Right to Life’s leadership on the Texas Heartbeat Act. Planned Parenthood can keep suing us, but Texas Right to Life will never back down from protecting pregnant women and preborn children from abortion.” ….
The new law, which was passed by Texas lawmakers this spring and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, amounts to a nearly complete ban on abortion, as most women do not know they are pregnant until after the sixth week of pregnancy. In Texas, 85 to 90 percent of abortions happen after the sixth week, according to lawyers for several clinics.
The law, which does not provide exceptions for rape or incest, bars state officials from enforcing it and instead deputizes private citizens to sue anyone who performs or “aids or abets” an abortion in violation of the law.
Texas Right to Life had already created a website, Prolifewhistleblower.com, to act as a tip line for the law’s violators. But activists on TikTok snarled the site with fabricated information.
Judge Gamble said the decision on Friday evening upheld Texas Supreme Court precedent, writing that “the primary consideration for temporary emergency relief is preserving the status quo while courts consider whether plaintiffs have demonstrated a probable right to the relief sought.”….
Worldwide, the overwhelming trend on abortion is to make it more accessible, not less. Off hand, I can’t think of any country that made it more difficult to get an abortion this century. There were more than a dozen countries that made it easier.
Don’t expect Texas religious extremists to stop with abortions. Now that they know that the Supreme Court is more committed to their values than legal principles, anything is possible.
Texas is an example,among many, “ when religion is evil,”
On abortion limits several yes, Southern Right leaning states are licking their chops on following Texas…..
We could see a return to pre-Roe bWade days soon….
Thus going backwards live some on the Right want scared of America in the 21st Centiry
Greg Abbott, the homicidal Dan Patrick (who once advocated letting older people die in the early days of the pandemic) and the rest of the Right wing kooks in Texas have contributed to 59 deaths of children (Texas leads the nation in Covid deaths among children) by refusing to take even minimal steps to alleviate the Covid spread.
It is difficult to comprehend the pure viciousness of these “conservatives “ who describe themselves as “pro life.”
And where is the outrage?
We are treated daily to a death here and there in Afghanistan.
But our own children are dying and we have to listen to Republicans southern Governors like Abbott, Reeves, McMaster,Lee and Dr Death himself, Ron DeSantis ,babble incessantly about “freedom” to spread death and disease .
What kind of animals are they?
But by all means let’s worry about a bunch of Afghans fighting a war which has been going on for fifty years or so .
It’s sick really!
We continue on this Jack……..
Pearl Harbor and 9/11 teach us that American CANNOT stop looking over the horizon……
Even Joe Biden’s concern for troops going in ‘harm’s way’ won’t stop this…..
Sayeth a virus spreader
He, he, he…..
Love ya Jack!
Politics ‘Trump’s’ Health it appears…..