Abortion providers ask US top court to review Texas abortion ban
Al Jazeera
Petition to US Supreme Court argues Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy is causing ‘great harm’.
Abortion providers in Texas have asked the United States Supreme Court to urgently intervene in their case challenging a law that imposed a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy – effectively outlawing the procedure in the state.
In a legal filing on Thursday, the providers asked the Supreme Court justices to hear their case before lower courts have finished ruling on the dispute because of the “great harm the ban is causing”.
The Texas law, which drew widespread condemnation and outrage from women’s rights advocates across the US, gives private citizens the power to enforce it by enabling them to sue anyone who assists a woman in getting an abortion past the six-week cutoff.
