Misinformation alert... SCOTUS did NOT rule on Constitutionality of TX law.

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5. Analysis: Supreme Court signals Roe vs. Wade will fall after allowing Texas to ban most abortions.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-02/the-supreme-court-signals-that-roe-vs-wade-will-fall-now-that-texas-may-ban-early-abortions

"Legal analysts believe that this ruling signals the end of Roe V Wade."
BY DAVID G. SAVAGE STAFF WRITER
SEP. 2, 2021 2:08 PM PT

"WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has sent its strongest signal to date that Roe vs. Wade will fall, having given a green light to the nation’s second-most populous state to outlaw abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The justices did not overturn the right to abortion in the order they released at 11:58 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday on the Texas case, and they might not formally overrule Roe vs. Wade later this year when they take up a case from Mississippi. But the five most conservative justices made it clear they would not protect women or their doctors if they face abortion-related penalties imposed by a state..

For the first time, President Trump’s three appointees joined together to rule in an abortion dispute, aligning with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., who have opposed abortion rights in court opinions for more than 30 years. The justices rejected an appeal from physicians in Texas and left in place a law that says it is illegal for a doctor to perform an abortion if a fetal heartbeat can be detected."

Florida State University law professor Mary Ziegler, an expert on the history of abortion law, said the decision pointed to the demise of Roe. “I think that any court that took the right to abortion seriously would have stayed this law,” she said. “I think the real question is how and when the court overrules Roe. It may not be in Dobbs [the case from Mississippi], but the end of Roe seems inevitable.”

“The only way to understand the court’s action,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, “is that there are five votes to overrule Roe vs. Wade. “Given their desire to do so and their opposition to abortion rights,” he said, “they could not bring themselves to block the Texas law. The law bans, effectively, abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. That obviously cannot be reconciled with Roe.”
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Of course the analysts could be wrong, but...