Abortion rights supporters see little to cheer in new Supreme Court opinion
CNN
One hundred days after allowing a Texas law that bars abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy to go into effect -- sending women scrambling to neighboring states to obtain a procedure protected by the Constitution -- the Supreme Court on Friday gave supporters of abortion rights little to celebrate.
The court did allow lawyers for clinics the chance to get into federal court -- to sue certain state officials -- in an attempt to block enforcement of the law and argue that it is in direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
But it was hardly the opinion that the providers hoped for. The law -- which has rendered Roe v. Wade a dead letter in the country's second largest state -- is still in effect. Lawsuits, from anyone in the country against an individual who has assisted a woman getting an abortion at around six weeks can still be filed by so called "bounty hunters" who are able to win damages starting $10,000.