Questioning whether a right to abortion even exists, Texas asks the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to its strict law and overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Questioning whether a “right to abortion exists” in this country, Texas state lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Biden administration’s plea to suspend a new state law that makes it illegal for doctors to perform abortions after about six weeks of a pregnancy.
This refers to the novel bounty-hunter provision in the Texas Heartbeat Act, which outlaws abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at around six weeks. The filing said doctors who performed illegal abortions were subject to private lawsuits, but state officials were not charged with enforcing it.The justices now must decide whether to intervene in the Texas case, either to temporarily block the law, or to review its constitutional status on a fast-track basis, or do both.
But earlier this month, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision kept the Texas law in effect, and the Justice Department then filed an emergency appeal to the high court on Monday.
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