#BreakingNews: The U.S. Supreme Court has for the second time declined to temporarily halt #Texas' 6-week abortion ban while its legality is litigated.
Before the law went into effect on September 1, 2021, the Center for Reproductive Rights and their partners filed a lawsuit, which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals intervened in and ruled for the law to go into effect.
At that point, the pro-choice coalition filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court denied the appeal. Today, the Supreme Court denied a second request, but this time the request came from the Department of Justice.
"For the second time, the Court declines to act immediately to protect these women from grave and irreparable harm," writes Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor in her opinion of the ruling. Here's the ruling in full: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2109…
Although the law remains in effect, within its ruling, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the DOJ's case against the law. The first oral arguments are on November 1, 2021.
To learn more about Texas' 6-week abortion ban, and how this ban came about, check out our in-depth report of the past and present of reproductive rights in the U.S. ---> unicornriot.ninja/2021/abortion-…
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