But do NOT stop the law from being in affect while be being challenged ….
This seem’s to be buying the court some time …
This decision is NOT about abortion actually…
It’s a technical one….
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a challenge to a Texas abortion law that banned most abortions in the state after about six weeks to proceed, ruling that abortion providers in the state may sue some state officials in federal court despite the procedural hurdles imposed by the unusual structure of the law.
But the Supreme Court refused to block the law in the meantime, saying that lower courts should consider the matter.
The development was both a victory for and a disappointment to supporters of abortion rights, who had hoped that the justices would reverse course from a Sept. 1 ruling that had allowed the law to go into effect, causing clinics in the state to curtail performing the procedure and forcing many women seeking abortions to travel out of state.
The decision in the Texas case came less than two weeks after the court heard a direct challenge to the right to abortion established in 1973 in Roe v. Wade, in a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks. Roe prohibits states from banning abortion before fetal viability, the point at which fetuses can sustain life outside the womb, or about 23 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy…
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The Texas law flouts Roe’s viability line by barring abortions once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, usually around 6 weeks.
The challenges to the Texas law focused not on the law’s constitutionality but on whether the law could be challenged in court by either abortion providers in the state or the federal government. The cases provided the court with an opportunity to revisit its earlier decision allowing the law to go into effect before the justices had grappled with its constitutionality or settled the question of how it could be challenged.
The Texas law, known as Senate Bill 8, has unusual features….
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There IS no doubt that the justices of the court ARE under HUGE pressure on the subject of abortion in America…
And some probably do NOT care…
Update…
A Texas judge said Thursday the enforcement mechanism behind the nation’s strictest abortion law — which rewards lawsuits against violators by awarding judgments of $10,000 — is unconstitutional in a narrow ruling that still leaves a near-total ban on abortions in place.
State District Judge David Peeples of Austin side-stepped the broader legality of the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which since September has banned abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks and before some women know they are even pregnant. Abortion providers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the law but it has so far declined to do so….
Take a look at the various polls on how the support for abortion has changed over time. This issue should help Democrats in the upcoming elections.
https://pollingreport.com/abortion.htm
Draw attention to the Quinnipiac polls. 31% now believe abortion should be legal in all circumstances, up from 15% in 3009
I am one of them although it’s none of my business since I could never become pregnant.
They have a tough call to make….
While some will be glad to throw out protections….
Some ARE aware that doing so IS gonna cause the court and the justices pushback by a large amount of the public …
Politically?
The court can’t go too far out on a limb I believe….
They don’t want to be diminishing their ability to be seen as political, which they ARE….
Texas Abortion law ping-pong continues …..
A divided federal appeals court panel Monday rebuffed Texas abortion clinics’ plea to send what remains of their challenge against the state’s privately enforced abortion ban back to the lower court that previously blocked the law, instead directing the case to the Texas Supreme Court for further interpretation.
The move by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals effectively prolongs the litigation over the unusual anti-abortion statute, leaving in place a law that has led to a dramatic reduction in the number of abortions performed in the state since the measure took effect in September….
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