by Robert Barnes
Oct 22, 2021
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider legal arguments over the Texas abortion law that is the nation’s most restrictive on Nov. 1, and that the law will remain in effect.
The court granted an expedited review of what is called S. B. 8, which the Biden administration in a filing Friday said “has virtually eliminated abortion in Texas after six weeks of pregnancy.”
By Katherine Dautrich, Isabelle Chapman, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Casey Tolan, CNN
Fri October 22, 2021 (CNN)
Nicole began her morning with a simple prayer: "Please let my car start today."
She had already gotten the mandatory ultrasound, scrounged up $595 and taken time off work. But at that moment -- with her pregnancy at exactly six weeks -- getting an abortion in her home state boiled down to her hatchback's temperamental engine turning over.
Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/us/texas-abortion-ban-invs/index.html
The Biden administration’s last-ditch bid to restore abortion rights in Texas, explained.
By Ian Millhiser, Vox
Oct 19, 2021
On October 14, the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit formally blocked a trial court’s decision halting SB 8, a Texas law banning most abortions in that state. On Monday, the US Justice Department, which sued to halt the Texas law, sought review of the Fifth Circuit’s thinly reasoned, single-paragraph order in the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court, where Republican appointees hold a 6-3 supermajority, is unlikely to do anything to restore abortion rights in Texas. Last month, a 5-4 Court handed down its own thinly reasoned, single-paragraph order permitting the Texas law to take effect. The Court also plans to hear a case in December, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which asks the justices to overrule Roe v. Wade altogether.
Continued: https://www.vox.com/2021/10/19/22728389/supreme-court-doj-texas-sb8-abortion-jackson
‘Copycat bills’ are a tradition that has been a hallmark of the antiabortion movement for decades
Caroline Kitchener
October 19, 2021
Less than 48 hours after Texas’s abortion law went into effect, banning almost all abortions, West Virginia state delegate Josh Holstein was reminded of the promise that got him elected in 2020.
Holstein ran as a “100 percent pro-life” Republican alternative to the two-term Democratic incumbent. He would pursue a “heartbeat bill” that would ban abortion once cardiac activity is detected, around six weeks of pregnancy. On Sept. 2, the day after Texas became the first state to successfully implement a six-week ban without court interference, a West Virginia resident called Holstein and other state delegates to task in a private post on his Facebook page. He wanted to know: Can we do the same thing in West Virginia?
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Mon October 18, 2021
(CNN)The Justice Department formally asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in and block a controversial Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal challenges play out.
The law is "clearly unconstitutional" and allowing it to remain in effect would "perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights," the Justice Department argues.
Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/supreme-court-abortion-appeal/index.html
SB 8 not only stripped Texan women of their rights under Roe v Wade, it made a mockery of the US constitution and the supremacy of the federal courts
Laurence H Tribe, Erwin Chemerinsky, Jeffrey Abramson and Dennis Aftergut
Sun 17 Oct 2021
Sadly, predictably and appallingly, on October 14, a three judge panel of the US court of appeals for the fifth circuit has allowed Texas’s “Bounty-Hunter” anti-abortion law to go back into effect while the court considers the case on the merits. Every day that the fifth circuit panel’s unlawful order keeps the statute in operation brings irreversible injury to women in Texas. US Attorney General Merrick Garland has properly decided to seek emergency relief from the US supreme court.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/17/texas-abortion-law-courts-us-constitution
By Ann E. Marimow
Oct 15, 2021
The nation’s most restrictive abortion law remains in place for now, after a federal appeals court on Thursday sided with the state of Texas.
In a 2-to-1 order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit refused the Justice Department’s request to reinstate an earlier court ruling that temporarily lifted the ban, which bars abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy and makes no exceptions for rape or incest.
The Supreme Court declined in early September to block the law, which went into effect on Sept. 1.
Oct. 15, 2021
By Pete Williams
The Biden administration said Friday it will once again ask the Supreme Court to put a hold on the Texas law that bans abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy.
"The Justice Department intends to ask the Supreme Court to vacate the Fifth Circuit's stay of the preliminary injunction against Texas Senate Bill 8," said Anthony Coley, the department's chief spokesman.
Across a major abortion clinic network in Texas, only 10 people over six weeks of pregnancy were able to obtain an abortion.
By Jennifer Gerson, Shefali Luthra
October 14, 2021
For about 48 hours last week, abortions after six weeks were once again legal in Texas.
Reproductive rights advocates hailed that window, the result of a district court ruling that was soon blocked, as a rare, if short-lived victory against Senate Bill 8, which has ended abortion access past six weeks of pregnancy and inspired copycat legislation across the country.
Oct. 13, 2021
By Charles M. Blow
When Jim Crow was originally established, it
spread from state to state like a contagion, each subsequent state taking
lessons from the ones before it.
Mississippi was one of the states at the vanguard of the first Jim Crow; Texas
may well be at the vanguard of the next. And the oppressive crusade is broader
than race. It includes gender and identity.
Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/texas-abortion-voting-transphobia.html
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