how the challenges to how texas created this law. oral arguments are scheduled for november 1st, that's just nine days from now which means the supreme court will take up two major and possibly consequential abortion cases this term. on december 1st, it will hear mississippi's abortion case which is a much more direct challenge to the constitutionality of abortion. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor emerges as the fiercest defender of abortion rights with the partial dissent to yesterday's decision and she agrees the court should remain in place, and it is cold comfort for texas women seeking abortion care who are entitled to relief now. according to the associated press, the law, quote, has led to an 80% reduction in abortions in the second largest states meanwhile abortions in oklahoma have been inundated with patients from texas and multiple states have passed new legislation limiting abortion rights. these developments underscore