The Texas abortion law's swift impact, and future

The state has placed a bounty, a $10,000 bounty on our heads. It's like a shot in the back to women. It's my goal to ultimately overturn roe v wade because I think the court got it wrong. Then all eyes are on the Supreme Court after justices refused to block the strictest texas abortion ban in august and now prepared to hear oral arguments in a Mississippi case that could overturn roe V wade. In 1973. Roe V wade made abortion a constitutional right after a texas woman norma jane roe McCorvey challenged the state's ban on the procedure. Despite that precedent, 48 years later, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the country's strictest ban on abortion into law. The life of every unborn child. We have, the heartbeat will be saved from the ravages of abortion. It went into effect in september leaving many women over six weeks pregnant, including those who were victims of rape abuse or incest. With few options, Although women receiving an abortion cannot be sued under the law. Anyone who helps her can be. The state has placed a bounty of $10,000 bounty on our heads, but they've now allowed the everyday citizens specifically the very people who stand on the sidewalk and harassed myself and my staff and my providers most times by name on a day to day basis, now have the authority and have been basically deputized to bring lawsuits against us the most pernicious thing about the texas law. It sort of creates a vigilante system and it just seems un american. You don't even have to be a Texas resident to file the suit or claim the $10,000 bounty under the law. You can sue the doctor, the medical staff at the clinic and anyone who drives a woman to their appointment. In response. Uber and Lyft have pledged to pay the legal fees of anyone sued under the texas abortion law, although texas's decision is grabbing everyone's attention nationwide. Republicans have pushed abortion restrictions for years. Now. The Mississippi case will go before the Supreme Court challenging roe v wade In a 5- four decision. The Supreme Court declined to block the Texas Bam. In justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion. She called texas Senate Bill eight a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny. Abortion clinics were left with no choice but to turn people away or send them across state lines, It will significantly impair women's access to the healthcare they need, particularly for communities of color and individuals with low incomes. In response, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of texas. This leaves women in texas unable to exercise their constitutional rights and unable to obtain judicial review. At the very moment, they need it already a texas doctor took matters into his own hands providing an abortion that is now illegal in an op ed published in the Washington post. The doctor wrote, I believe abortion is an essential part of healthcare. I've spent the past 50 years treating and helping patients. I can't just sit back and watch us return to 1972 just days after going public to individuals brought lawsuits against the doctor. In a late night decision, a month after the law went into effect, a federal judge issued an order to block it. Governor Abbott immediately appealed the following morning in May, before Abbott even signed that law. Roe V wade was in jeopardy of being overturned. The Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments from Mississippi's case, Dobbs v. Jackson, Women's health organizations. The law at the heart of the case, attempts to ban abortion after 15 weeks and has been working its way up the legal system since 2018 is my goal to ultimately overturn Roe v wade because I think the court got it wrong. Then the fifth Circuit temporarily blocked that law saying that Roe V wade protects a woman's right to an abortion. The state of Mississippi appealed that decision, ultimately asking the Supreme Court to weigh in which they will in december. His justices decided to take up our case. So I feel like they're going to want to do something. They're going to address the viability, which is the question we've asked them after all of this. Now, they're saying that these same women should not have the right to make this decision themselves. It doesn't make sense. It's it's like it's unconstitutional. It's it's it's just it's like a shot In the back to women. By the end of 2022, the nine justices will announce their decision. If the court agrees with Mississippi's argument, it would reverse a right given to women nearly 50 years ago.

Most abortions in Texas are banned again after clinics that had raced to provide them during a two-day legal reprieve canceled appointments Saturday following a whiplash appeals court ruling.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order Friday night, reinstating a Texas law that prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks — and before some women know they’re pregnant.Enforcement of the nation’s strictest abortion law is left up to private citizens who are deputized to file civil lawsuits against abortion providers, as well as others who help a woman obtain an abortion in Texas. Since taking effect in September, clinics in other states, including neighboring Louisiana and Oklahoma, have been inundated with patients from Texas.Friday’s order from the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit is just the latest in the legal battle over the Texas law, known as Senate Bill 8. It came two days after a federal judge in Austin suspended the law, allowing providers to resume abortions.Here are some questions and answers about the law and what’s next: WHAT HAS BEEN THE IMPACT?Abortion providers say the ramifications have been punishing and “exactly what we feared.” Some women are being forced to carry pregnancies to term, they say, or waiting in hopes that courts will strike down the law.More than 100 pages of court filings in September offered the most comprehensive glimpse at how the near-total ban on abortion in Texas has played out. Physicians and executives at Texas’ nearly two dozen abortion clinics described turning away hundreds of patients, and some who showed up for appointments could not proceed because cardiac activity had been detected.One Planned Parenthood location in Houston normally performed about two dozen abortions daily, but in the 10 days after the law took effect, the clinic had done a total of 52.Clinics in nearby states, meanwhile, say care for their own residents is being delayed to accommodate women making long trips from Texas. Doctors say recent patients from Texas have included rape victims, as the law makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.Whole Women’s Health has four clinics in Texas and was among providers that performed abortions in the state Thursday and Friday, after the lower court ruling allowed them. President and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller said she didn’t have the number of abortions performed during the reprieve. WHAT WAS THE LANDSCAPE IN TEXAS BEFORE?More than 55,000 abortions were performed last year in Texas, which already had some of the nation's strictest abortion laws, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy.Abortion providers in Texas have experience when it comes to abruptly ramping up operations again. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, abortions in Texas were all but banned for weeks under orders by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that postponed surgeries “not immediately medically necessary."But providers were reporting staffing issues and worried some clinics would permanently shutter. A decade ago, Texas had more than 40 abortion clinics, but more than half of them closed for good during a protracted legal battle over a 2013 law that was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?The Biden administration could bring the case back to the Supreme Court and ask the justices to quickly restore the federal judge's order that blocked the law.The law has already made one trip to the Supreme Court. The justices voted 5-4 not to intervene to prevent it from taking effect, but they said further challenges were possible. With the Biden administration’s challenge underway, the law could return to the justices quickly.The federal judge who suspended the law — Robert Pitman, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama — wrote in a blistering 113-page opinion that the law was an “offensive deprivation” of the constitutional right to an abortion.Whether the Biden administration’s lawsuit — which calls it “clearly unconstitutional” — was likely to succeed was a factor in Pitman putting the law on hold.Texas Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group and a driver of the new law, has cheered the fact that it has stopped abortions every day that it has been in effect.HOW ARE OTHER STATES RESPONDING?After Texas' law went into effect, Republican lawmakers in at least half a dozen states said they would consider introducing similar bills, with the goal of enacting the kind of abortion crackdown they have sought for years. Those states include Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota.Meanwhile, two dozen state attorneys general, all Democrats, submitted a brief in the Biden administration’s lawsuit saying a substantial reduction of abortion access in one state would result in health care systems being burdened elsewhere.The City Council in Portland, Oregon, briefly considered a boycott of Texas businesses because of the new law but instead decided to set aside $200,000 to fund reproductive care.The growing anti-abortion campaign is intended to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Abortion opponents hope the conservative coalition assembled under President Donald Trump will end the constitutional right to abortion as established by the high court in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

AUSTIN, Texas —

Most abortions in Texas are banned again after clinics that had raced to provide them during a two-day legal reprieve following a whiplash appeals court ruling.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order Friday night, reinstating a Texas law that prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks — and .

Enforcement of the nation’s strictest abortion law is left up to private citizens who are deputized to file civil lawsuits against abortion providers, as well as others who help a woman obtain an abortion in Texas. Since taking effect in September, clinics in other states, including neighboring Louisiana and Oklahoma, have been inundated with patients from Texas.

Friday’s order from the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit is just the latest in the legal battle over the Texas law, known as Senate Bill 8. It came two days after a federal judge in Austin suspended the law, allowing providers to resume abortions.

Here are some questions and answers about the law and what’s next:

WHAT HAS BEEN THE IMPACT?

Abortion providers say the ramifications have been punishing and Some women are being forced to carry pregnancies to term, they say, or waiting in hopes that courts will strike down the law.

More than 100 pages of court filings in September offered the most comprehensive glimpse at how the near-total ban on abortion in Texas has played out. Physicians and executives at Texas’ nearly two dozen abortion clinics described turning away hundreds of patients, and some who showed up for appointments could not proceed because cardiac activity had been detected.

One Planned Parenthood location in Houston normally performed about two dozen abortions daily, but in the 10 days after the law took effect, the clinic had done a total of 52.

Clinics in nearby states, meanwhile, say care for their own residents is being delayed to accommodate women making long trips from Texas. Doctors say recent patients from Texas have included rape victims, as the law makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.

Whole Women’s Health has four clinics in Texas and was among providers that performed abortions in the state Thursday and Friday, after the lower court ruling allowed them. President and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller said she didn’t have the number of abortions performed during the reprieve.

WHAT WAS THE LANDSCAPE IN TEXAS BEFORE?

More than 55,000 abortions were performed last year in Texas, which already had some of the nation's strictest abortion laws, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Abortion providers in Texas have experience when it comes to abruptly ramping up operations again. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, abortions in Texas were all but banned for weeks under orders by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that postponed surgeries “not immediately medically necessary."

But providers were reporting staffing issues and worried some clinics would permanently shutter. A decade ago, Texas had more than 40 abortion clinics, but more than half of them closed for good during a protracted legal battle over a 2013 law that was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

The Biden administration could bring the case back to the Supreme Court and ask the justices to quickly restore the federal judge's order that blocked the law.

The law has already made one trip to the Supreme Court. The justices voted 5-4 not to intervene to prevent it from taking effect, but they said further challenges were possible. With the Biden administration’s challenge underway, the law could return to the justices quickly.

The federal judge who suspended the law — Robert Pitman, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama — wrote in a blistering 113-page opinion that the law was an “offensive deprivation” of the constitutional right to an abortion.

Whether the Biden administration’s lawsuit — which calls it “clearly unconstitutional” — was likely to succeed was a factor in Pitman putting the law on hold.

Texas Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group and a driver of the new law, has cheered the fact that it has stopped abortions every day that it has been in effect.

HOW ARE OTHER STATES RESPONDING?

After Texas' law went into effect, Republican lawmakers in at least half a dozen states , with the goal of enacting the kind of abortion crackdown they have sought for years. Those states include Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Meanwhile, two dozen state attorneys general, all Democrats, submitted a brief in the Biden administration’s lawsuit saying a substantial reduction of abortion access in one state would result in health care systems being burdened elsewhere.

The City Council in Portland, Oregon, briefly because of the new law but instead decided to set aside $200,000 to fund reproductive care.

The growing anti-abortion campaign is intended to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Abortion opponents hope assembled under President Donald Trump will end the constitutional right to abortion as established by the high court in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

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