Breaking: Abortion-Rights Groups Ask Supreme Court to Halt Texas Law

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Abortion-rights groups ask Supreme Court to halt Texas law

Mon Nov 4, 2013 9:57am EST

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Abortion-rights groups in Texas on Monday filed an emergency request with U.S. Supreme Court to strike down newly enacted abortion restrictions, the groups said in a statement.

A requirement that physicians who provide abortions have admitting privileges in local hospitals caused at least a dozen clinics and surgery centers across the state to stop offering abortion services after the law went into effect on Friday, clinic employees said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9A30KM20131104

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I suspect this is a long shot, but it's sure worth a try...

[Pab Sungenis]

2. Well, who would vote for it?

Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Ginsburg are enough to vote for the Court to take the case, so it will get certiorari.

However, Scalia is the Justice for the Fifth Circuit, so he won't issue a stay.

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

4. Scalia will have no choice.

Scalia has to petition the fellow justices... then has to take it.


Scalia would be an idiot not to take the case.

[Pab Sungenis]

5. But he won't issue a stay

[lostincalifornia]

3. Any person who votes republican is voting against women. Which also demonstrates a troubling aspect

of New Jersey, since the polls I have seen have Chris Christie winning reelection, yet NJ voted for Cory Booker. That tells me people do not know where these people are on some very basic issues?

[nomorenomore08]

6. Christie's popularity is astonishing to me. These folks are *really* scraping the bottom

of the barrel if they think he's a great guy.

[lostincalifornia]

7. it is unfortunate that the media seems to be filtering anything negative about him