Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By PAUL WEBER, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and STEPHEN GROVES

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt services again. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.

The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again — all in the span of a week — illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.

An order by a Houston judge earlier this week had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. That was quickly followed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the state’s highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put the order on hold.



Mahayana Landowne, of Brooklyn, N.Y., wears a "Lady Justice" costume as she marches past the Supreme Court during a protest for abortion-rights, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)


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[Lovie777]

1. To the appellate court ......

[Abigail_Adams]

4. It's unjust that

pregnant women, some of whom have to make travel plans and request to take off from work, have to watch the news each day to see what they're allowed to do. Thanks, SCOTUS.

[area51]

5. +1

Welcome to DU.

[LeftInTX]

2. Well, that was unexpected...

[twodogsbarking]

3. Our legal system.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Texas can enforce 1925 abortion ban, state Supreme Court says

The Texas supreme court consists of 9 republicans including some real assholes

Link to tweet

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/02/texas-abortion-1925-ban-supreme-court/

Texas can enforce its abortion ban from 1925, the state Supreme Court ruled late Friday evening, a decision that exposes abortion providers to lawsuits and financial penalties if they continue to perform the procedure.

The court overruled a district judge in Houston, who on Tuesday had temporarily blocked the state’s old abortion law from going into effect. That law made performing an abortion, by any method, punishable by two to 10 years in prison.

Friday’s decision does not permit prosecutors to bring criminal cases against abortion providers, but it exposes anyone who assists in the procurement of an abortion to fines and lawsuits.

The federal Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that asserted that access to abortion is protected under the constitution. The Texas Legislature last year passed a “trigger law” that would automatically ban abortion from the moment of fertilization 30 days after a judgment from the Supreme Court, which typically comes about a month after the initial opinion.

Abortion rights groups filed a lawsuit Monday in hopes of extending the period the procedure remains legal in Texas. They argued the 1925 ban was effectively repealed when the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Roe v. Wade, and thus cannot be enforced now.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Back to 1925. It's fucking violence with suits and robes.

[BigmanPigman]

8. The norm these days is "one step forward, two steps back".

We are in the dark ages.