Texas's six-week abortion ban remains in effect after federal appeals court ruling

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

The nation’s most restrictive abortion law remains in effect in Texas after a federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request from abortion providers to immediately return their legal challenge to a trial court judge who had previously blocked the measure.

In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit temporarily transferred the case to the Texas Supreme Court, a step requested by state officials that could leave the dispute in limbo for months.

The court’s majority said its decision was “consistent” with the Supreme Court’s ruling last month and necessary to avoid “creating needless friction” with the state court over interpretation of the Texas law.

Abortion providers had warned the 5th Circuit that any diversion from the district court in Austin would continue to restrict access to the procedure after about six weeks into pregnancy, when many women do not yet realize they are pregnant.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-law/2022/01/17/d18b848a-7256-11ec-b202-b9b92330d4fa_story.html

[Farmer-Rick]

1. The courts keep a** kissing these forced pregnancy religious nuts.

Seems they can force a woman to carry an unwanted fetus for 9 months in her body, turning her into nothing more than an incubator. But you can't make a woman get vaccinated or wear a mask during a deadly pandemic, or even make her get that child vaccinated.

Stupid is as stupid passes laws that contradict their own stupidity does.

[pfitz59]

2. No guaranteed healthcare

for mother or child. just "have the brat and suffer."

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Exactly

Maybe if they made it easier to raise a child to adulthood, more women would want to keep those fetuses.

What's wrong with a society that would rather abuse women to force them to keep their unwanted fetuses then to feed and care for the living being that fetus becomes.

[ck4829]

3. Of course

[Lonestarblue]

4. No surprise coming from the 5th Circuit.

This was the conclusion all along, and SC justices knew this would happen when then sent the case there, but it got them off the hook for not calling this law unconstitutional. The 5th Circuit is full of Trump appointees, the most extreme right-wing nuts he and McConnell could find.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Adding a link:

TEXAS ABORTION RESTRICTIONS

Texas abortion law challenge heads to state's supreme court, likely adding more delays to case

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision means it could take months before abortion providers’ challenge to the restrictive law returns to a federal court.

BY LOMI KRIEL, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE AND PROPUBLICA JAN. 17, 2022 10 HOURS AGO

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[raging moderate]

6. But it is NOT 6 weeks of pregnancy.

The date they are falsely claiming to be 6 weeks of pregnancy is actually 6 weeks after the first day of the previous menstrual bleeding. NO pregnancy occurs on that date. Couldn't the opponents of this law do something with this simple and well-documented fact? This law is NOT based on the actual facts. If the law says 6 weeks into pregnancy, then no woman should be victimized for having an abortion that is NOT 6 weeks into pregnancy, but is actually done 6 weeks after the first day of her previous menstrual bleeding, with the actual pregnancy having occurred perhaps 2 weeks after that. We should not allow them to get away with this lie.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Gestational age is routinely calculated from LMP.

[raging moderate]

9. Yes, I know.

I don't see why we allow the other side to pretend that is the same as actual gestational age. I don't see why we allow the other side to conflate two very different timelines. Maybe some of their followers would be capable of compromise if they understood the difference. And maybe we could win some court cases if we pressed this simple fact.