The Supreme Court for a third time allows Texas to bar abortions after 6 weeks

[Poiuyt]

The U.S. Supreme Court has once again let the lower courts delay in addressing a Texas law that for four months has, for all practical purposes, made abortion in the state illegal after six weeks of pregnancy, when many women do not yet know they are pregnant.

This is the third time the court has ducked dealing with the law, known as SB 8, which is aimed at skirting enforcement of the right to abortion. Last month, the high court, in a fractured ruling, sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, with a single tenuous route to challenging the law. The Fifth Circuit, however, sent the case to the state supreme court, in an apparent attempt to delay further while the U.S. Supreme Court determines whether to reverse its 50-year-old abortion precedent, Roe v. Wade.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074534980/supreme-court-for-third-time-allows-texas-to-bar-abortions-after-six-weeks

I'll be very surprised if RvW does not get overturned now. All these conservative justices who said Roe is the law of the land apparently were just lying.

[Lovie777]

1. GQP ....

what did you expect, truth?

[SoCalDavidS]

2. They've Already Overturned Roe V Wade

Their ruling on that case has already been made, and is currently under seal. ONLY the justices know what the final ruling was until it's made public a few months from now.

My guess is that since they've effectively overturned Roe, they see no need to step in on this case, since in all actuality, the point is moot so far as they're concerned, and the law that's about to go into effect will go far beyond this particular situation.

[roamer65]

3. Good analysis.

I think you are right.

If they had upheld Roe v Wade, they would knock down the TX law.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. From Justice Sotomayor

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