Texas Supreme Court deals final blow to federal abortion law challenge

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Abortions in Texas after six weeks are in effect banned in Texas. Roe v. Wade is no longer the law in Texas. The fate of Roe v. Wade and control of the SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016. Thank you, Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon for helping to overturn Roe

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The Texas Supreme Court dealt a final blow to abortion providers’ federal challenge to the state’s latest abortion restrictions Friday.

The court ruled that state medical licensing officials do not have authority to enforce the law, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. This was the last, narrowly cracked window that abortion providers had left to challenge the law after the U.S. Supreme Court decimated their case in a December ruling.

The law has a unique private-enforcement mechanism that empowers private citizens to sue anyone who, in the law’s language, “aids or abets” an abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy.

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