“The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday left in place a ban on most abortions in Texas but allowed a legal challenge [from abortion providers] to proceed… The Texas law [S.B. 8] enables private citizens to sue anyone who performs or assists a woman in getting an abortion after embryo cardiac activity is detected. Individual citizens can be awarded a minimum of $10,000 for successful lawsuits.” (Reuters)
“The court ruled that the [abortion] providers’ lawsuit can go forward against a group of state medical licensing officials, but not against the state-court judges and clerks whom the providers had also tried to sue… The question before the court in the Texas providers’ case centered on S.B. 8’s unusual enforcement mechanism, which delegates the sole power to enforce the law to private individuals, rather than state officials.” (SCOTUSblog)
“A Texas judge on Thursday ruled that the state’s controversial law restricting abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy violates the Texas Constitution, saying it should not be enforced in court. Although Thursday’s ruling is a win for abortion rights advocates, the order only has direct consequences for the 14 lawsuits in the case that the judge oversaw.” (Texas Tribune)
The left criticizes the Court’s ruling.
The right supports the Court’s ruling.
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