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U.S. Supreme Court reinstated, retaining almost complete veto power Abortion in Texas, which contains no exceptions for incest or rape cases, and promises to stay in effect for months if courts refuse to block it.
During the past six months, Supreme Refused to stop enforcing controversial Texas law, which bans abortions from six weeks into a pregnancy, when many women don’t know they’re pregnant, contradicting a precedent established by the Supreme Court in 1973.
The court’s six conservative justices unanimously decided not to act on the case, while three progressive justices disagreed.
“This case is a disaster for the rule of law This has done serious damage to women in Texas,” wrote Progressive Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who promised she would not “keep silent while a state continues to repeal a constitutional guarantee” of abortion right.
The Supreme Court had already allowed the Texas veto to continue after it went into effect in September, and did so again in December, when it sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative appeals courts in the country. one.
Last Monday, a panel of the court decided to ask the Texas Supreme Court to explain the constitutionality of the veto, a process that could take months.
To prevent the controversial law from staying in effect in Texas during this time, groups defending abortion rights sent an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping that the court would reverse the appeals court’s decision.
This The groups’ goal is for the Supreme Court to send the case back to lower federal courts. This had temporarily blocked the veto in October.
“People in Texas continue to be forced out of the state to get basic health care, if they can, or to continue to get pregnant against their will. It’s inhumane,” said Alexis McNair, president of Planned Parenthood, the largest group. Jill Johnson said in a statement.American Reproductive Health Clinic Network
the law Texas allows individuals to file civil lawsuits Anyone who helps a pregnant woman get an abortion if they believe they violated the injunction is offering up to $10,000 in damages to each plaintiff in each successful lawsuit.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to decide by the middle of this year whether to uphold a legal precedent set by the same court in 1973, the “Roy vs. Wade battle,” which guaranteed legal abortion in the U.S. by around 24 weeks.
If the Supreme Court strikes down Roy v Wade, every US territory is free to ban or allow abortion, and more than half of the country’s states are expected to take steps to veto it in that case.
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