Texas high court questions clinics' challenge to abortion law

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Source: Reuters

By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) - Justices on Texas's high court on Thursday sharply questioned whether clinics can challenge a law that banned most abortions in the state because it is enforced by private individuals, just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the case to move forward.

The clinics are suing over a law, known as SB8, that went into effect Sept. 1 and bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. It allows private citizens to sue anyone who performs and assists a woman in obtaining an abortion after embryo cardiac activity is detected.

A federal appeals court last month asked the Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on whether state officials, including those tasked with doctor licensing, could indirectly enforce the law by taking disciplinary actions against violators.

That could allow the clinics to overcome a novel feature of the law that has frustrated their ability to challenge it in federal court by placing enforcement in the hands of private citizens, rather than the state officials.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-high-court-questions-clinics-challenge-to-abortion-law/ar-AAUgvbp

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1. From what I understand, no law is valid if it can't be challenged or put aside. No such thing

as an iron clad law. I seem to recall the US Supreme Court saying this...

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2. The US Supreme Court has said many things, mostly ignored by the current majority.