The US government goes to the Supreme Court to overturn the tightened abortion law in Texas. Attorney General Garland said the law is “clearly” in violation of the constitution. The highest judges previously refused to declare the strict law illegal, but then did not review it against the constitution. That will happen now.
The law became effective at the beginning of September and prescribes, among other things, that women should no longer have an abortion if the heartbeat of the embryo can be heard. This is often after six weeks of pregnancy. No exception is made for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape.
Since then, attempts have been made to get the bill off the table with varying degrees of success, but yesterday the Texas court ruled again that the law can stand. That means that Texas women who want an abortion have to move to another state.
Texas has about twenty abortion clinics. Some will have to close if the law remains in force for a while. The Justice Department spokesman did not say when the government will take the case to the Supreme Court.
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