WASHINGTON: Administration of President Joe Biden on Thursday sued Texas, trying to block new law enforcement that almost all prohibited abortion in the state, because Democrats were afraid that the rights for the abortion founded almost 50 years ago may be at risk.
The United States Supreme Court last week let Texas law forbid abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women realized that they were pregnant.
Although the decision did not discuss the constitutionality of Texas’s law, it represents a big victory for social conservatives who have tried to ban abortion since the court 1973 ROE V.
Wade’s decision sets constitutional rights to the procedure.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Texas’ law “was clearly not constitutional.” “This kind of scheme to cancel the constitution of the United States is all Americans, whatever politics or their party must be afraid,” Garland said.
“If you win, it might be a model for actions in other regions by other countries.” The Texas law depends on citizens to enforce it by filing a demand for civil demands against people who help a woman get an abortion after six weeks, whether it is a doctor who performs a procedure or a cabbie who drives a woman to a clinic.
This law allows people who demand at least $ 10,000 and do not make exceptions to rape or incest, even though there are clear exceptions for maternal health.
The Governor of the Republic of Texas Greg Abbott maintains the law this week, saying that the country will “eliminate all rapists.” “Texas issues a law that ensures that the life of every child with a heartbeat will avoid abortion damage,” Abbott Renae Eze spokesman said in a statement.
“We believe that the court will uphold and protect that right to live.” The online court map initially said the case was assigned to the US district judge Lee Yeakel in the Western District of Texas.
But the map was converted to the US district judge Robert Pitman.
Pitman, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, in August because it was considering blocking Texas’s law to take effect but the appeals court stopped the process.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s decision not to block the law of Texas last week, the activists of abortion rights left that the court, where the conservative held a 6-3 majority, it might be open to reverse ROE when he heard a case of Mississippi’s abortion later this year.
The opponent of abortion estimates that the administrative challenges of Biden to Texas law will ultimately fail.
“Joe Biden has a long record of failure by protecting unborn and pregnant women,” Texas said the right to live Vice President Elizabeth Graham.
“Doj will quickly find that they do not have jurisdiction to stop the Texas heartbeat law.” Because it takes a few weeks before pregnancy can be detected on standard urine tests, Texas women can only have one or two weeks to find abortion before doing it under the law.
About 85% to 90% of abortion occurred after six weeks of pregnancy, and leaving a ban on a place could cause clinics to close, abortion rights groups warned.
The health of a whole woman, who has four Texas clinics, praises Biden’s administrative steps.
“This is a monumental time for the federal government to step and restore the rights of all people for safe and high-quality abortion care,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, the group executive chief, said in a statement.
The majority of Americans believe abortion must be legal, according to Reuters / IPSSS voting.
About 52% said it must be legal in most or all cases, with only 36% say it must be illegal in most or all cases.
But it remains a very political problem, with the majority of Democrats supporting abortion rights and the majority of republicans who oppose them.