The court’s order, which rejected an emergency request by clinics and abortion-rights advocates, marks a turning point in the legal battle over abortion rights and comes the day the Texas ban went into force. 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 unsigned order came on a 5-4 vote, with most of the conservative justices in the majority.
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Supreme Court Declines to Block Restrictive Texas Abortion Law
A new measure, known as the fetal-heartbeat law, bars the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy. Abortion providers had sought to prevent it from taking effect.
It feels like history is hurtling toward some momentous resolution, towards which the multiple crises of the last decade have been building. All that is certain is that after the coming smash that nothing will be the same again.