“We have been fighting this ban for six long months, but the courts have failed us,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health and Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, said in a statement.
Thousands march through downtown San Antonio in October in protest of Texas’ new restrictive abortion law. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that state medical licensing officials do not have authority to enforce the law, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.The Texas Supreme Court dealt a final blow to abortion providers’ federal challenge to the state’s latest abortion restrictions Friday.
The law has a unique private-enforcement mechanism that empowers private citizens to sue anyone who, in the law’s language, “aids or abets” an abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with all of those arguments but one, allowing a challenge against the medical licensing officials to proceed. That case then went back to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which sent it to the Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on.
On Friday, the justices issued a ruling that seemed to agree with Stone’s “ordinary English interpretation” of the law.
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