Supreme Court failed the women of Texas
Women in Texas have suffered a devastating temporary defeat. Many in the far reaches of the Valley and other areas will be without reproductive healthcare. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and now the Supreme Court have ensured that. While this is litigated, how many Texas women will be hurt? How many lives will be irreparably damaged.
SCOTUS Won’t Intervene in Texas Abortion Case
- by Becca Aaronson November 19, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday rejected a request by abortion providers to intervene in their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of new abortion regulations in Texas that took effect in November.
“Reasonable minds can perhaps disagree about whether the [U.S. 5th Circuit] Court of Appeals should have granted a stay in this case,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the 5-4 opinion. “There is no doubt that the applicants have not carried their heavy burden of showing that doing so was a clear violation of accepted legal standards — which do not include a special ‘status quo’ standard for laws affecting abortion.”
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, “Although the injunction will ultimately be reinstated if the law is indeed invalid, the harms to the individual women whose rights it restricts while it remains in effect will be permanent.”
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