Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
The Supreme Court decided Monday that a court order finding Texas hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a state abortion ban will stay for now.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. There were no publicly noted dissents.
The decision comes weeks before a presidential election where abortion has been a key issue after the high court’s 2022 decision overturning the nationwide right to abortion.
The justices rebuffed a Biden administration push to throw out the lower court order. The administration argues that under federal law hospitals must perform abortions if needed in cases where a pregnant patient’s health or life is at serious risk, even in states where it’s banned.
If you aren't already doing so, it's time to start preparing for a total abortion ban. If you're not someone who wants to conceive, get your tubes tied. If you need birth control, stockpile it if you can, same with the morning after pill.
Maybe we won't face a total ban in the coming years, but I'm not sure how any reasonable person can look at the political developments in the US over the last four years and be optimistic.
Man America is wild,
It really is. The same people who say they oppose abortion bans are going to vote en masse for the Democratic Party in the fall, even though the Democratic Party has done nothing meaningful to restore Roe.
Im sorry its a pretty wild to blame democrats and democrat voters for this? Are you serious?
The article you just posted states that Biden attempted to overturn the ban, but the Supreme court refused.
Also earlier this year democrats have tried codifying Roe but the GOP shut down (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna161016).
What do you suppose they could do?
They need both chambers of Congress to pass a law or constitutional amendment, and they only have one. Biden could expand the Supreme Court, but he's too much of an old school statesman to rock the status quo, and there's no guarantee they'd vote as a unit.
Furthermore, Democratic states have been enshrining abortion access into law and/or their constitutions, and they've been getting abortion onto voting ballots in red states, so it's not really fair or accurate to say they haven't done anything meaningful.
Edit: typo