{"id":82166,"date":"2021-09-02T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=82166"},"modified":"2021-09-02T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:33:50","slug":"texas-abortion-law-upheld-by-scotus-in-5-4-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=82166","title":{"rendered":"Texas Abortion Law Upheld by SCOTUS In 5-4 Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberals Furious After Supreme Court Refuses To Block Texas Abortion Law In 5-4 Vote<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

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One day after allowing Texas’s heartbeat bill – the most restrictive abortion law passed in the US since the dawn of the Roe v. Wade era –\u00a0to take effect<\/a>, the Supreme Court has declined to block the law, which bars abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected – usually around the six-week mark.<\/p>\n

The court’s nighttime order, which arrived just before midnight in the form of a single paragraph and rejected an emergency request by clinics and abortion-rights advocates, marks a turning point in the legal battle over abortion rights. While not a final ruling on the measure’s constitutionality, the court’s action validates – at least temporarily – a novel attempt by Texas lawmakers to insulate antiabortion legislation from court challenge (the novel strategy here is Texas’ decision to charge private persons with enforcement of the law, making it more difficult for pro-choice activists to halt enforcement of the law by suing the parties responsible for enforcement). The unsigned order was approved by 5-4 vote, with most of the conservative justices in the majority (with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court’s three liberal justices in opposition).<\/p>\n

In the unsigned explanation, the court\u2019s majority added that the decision was “not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas\u2019s law” and allowed legal challenges to proceed.<\/p>\n

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