The DOJ says it will provide support to abortion clinics, but the statement fails to account for how dire the situation in Texas really is
On Monday, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke out in support of abortion providers in Texas,
under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a 1994 law that makes it illegal to obstruct someone’s access to reproductive health services.“The department will provide support from federal law enforcement when an abortion clinic or reproductive health center is under attack,” Garland said, referring to the Department of Justice.
Garland’s statement is an important reminder of an often-overlooked law that, like many legal abortion protections, has been steadily eroded by clinic protesters. But the DOJ’s invocation of the FACE Act will do little to help embattled clinics whose providers are prevented from serving the vast majority of their patients.
Government officials’ outrage over Texas’s abortion ban have been little more than exercises in futility, underscoring not only the insidiousness of the legal loophole that has allowed it to go into effect, but leaders’ failures in imagination. Last week,Roe v. Wade ,” and reiterated his intention to “codify” the landmark Supreme Court ruling in federal law. Biden also appears to remain “deeply committed” to avoiding any serious discussion of abolishing the filibuster or packing the court (the former of which would be a prerequisite for codifyings also loath to mention it.
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