Groups Ask SCOTUS To Block Imminent Texas Abortion Ban From Going Into Effect
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“In less than two days, Texas politicians will have effectively overturned Roe v. Wade,” one petitioner said.
Several groups filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asking it to block a highly restrictive Texas abortion ban from going into effect on Wednesday and to allow a lawsuit over the ban to continue in lower courts. The request ― filed by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, The Lawyering Project and others ― is a last-ditch effort to stop a Texas law that would effectively ban abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy from going into effect on schedule. The far-reaching ban also allows anyone to enforce it ― and offers incentives for them to do so by promising a $10,000 bounty to anyone who successfully sues a person “aiding or abetting” abortion-seeking patients in Texas. “We’ve always said that we will do everything we can to fight for our patients and their access to abortion, and that’s why we’re asking the Supreme Court to step in to stop this abortion ban from taking effect,” Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement Monday.More Related News