A Texas law that would drastically limit the availability of abortions in defiance of Roe vs. Wade took effect early Wednesday, as the Supreme Court took no action on pending appeals.
The Texas Legislature has signed off on a sweeping GOP rewrite of election laws after months of protests by Democrats.On Monday, abortion-rights advocates filed an appeal with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who hears such emergency appeals for the region, and urged the Supreme Court to intervene to prevent states and judges from ignoring its past rulings.
They said the Texas case “presents the question whether a state can evade federal court review of a state law that is in clear contravention of this court’s precedents by creating a scheme of private enforcement in the state’s courts,” lawyers for Planned Parenthood“The drastic consequences of S.B. 8 for public health, women’s health, and the constitutional right to a pre-viability abortion plainly present issues of national importance warranting this court’s review.
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