Pro-Life Win: SCOTUS Lets Texas Six Week Abortion Ban Stand
Senate Bill 6 effectively bans abortions in the Lone Star State the moment a fetal heartbeat will be detected.
In a pro-life victory, the Supreme Courtroom of the United States ruled 5-4 upon Wednesday not to block the newest Texas law banning many abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal problems to that law proceed within lower courts.
A narrow majority of justices held that the abortion-provider plaintiffs had failed to satisfy the high standard required for the Supreme Court to issue an injunction blocking the law before it goes into effect.
Agreed upon in May by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Senate Bill 8 effectively bans abortions in the Lone Celebrity State the moment a fetal heartbeat is detected, which regularly occurs after six weeks associated with pregnancy. Since women usually do not often detect pregnancy prior to the sixth week, the law effectively bans abortions in the state. Multiple states have tried to implement similar measures simply to be blocked by the legal courts.
The five-justice majority of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, plus Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett did not issue a published opinion with their decision, so the precise thinking of the Court remains not clear, including whether the Texas legislation would survive a constitutional challenge on the merits when that question is squarely before the Supreme Court.
“ The candidates now before us have got raised serious questions about the constitutionality of the Texas legislation at issue, ” Main Justice John Roberts had written in dissent. “ However application also presents complicated and novel antecedent step-by-step questions on which they have not carried their burden. ”
Roberts described that he was dissenting mainly because an injunction would deep freeze the status quo while the courts function with whether Texas’s law violates a constitutional right to illigal baby killing, narrowly leaving open the possibility that he could vote in favor of the law down the road.
