Editor’s Note: Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.” Follow her @maryrziegler. Or the justices could do something more subtle, allowing the states to ban more and more abortions, but without declaring a formal end to abortion rights SB8 …
On September 1, the state of Texas implemented Senate Bill 8 banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, including in cases of rape and incest. As NPR notes, the Texas Right to Life organisation has already “set up what it calls a ‘whistleblower’ website where people can submit anonymous tips about anyone they believe to be violating the law”. Reuters …
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in October will hear the Biden administration’s efforts to block Texas’ new law banning most abortions, which is already putting a strain on clinics and patients in the two weeks since it took effect. Physicians and executives at Texas’ nearly two dozen abortion clinics described turning away hundreds of patients, and some who show …
The law allows private citizens to sue those providing or assisting in abortions performed after about six weeks. The United States Department of Justice has asked a federal court in Texas to temporarily stop the enforcement of a new state law that bans most abortions. The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity …
