A judge granted an emergency request from the Justice Department, which had already sued the state saying the law was unconstitutional. It bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
constitutional right to abortion. it is overdue. we will continue fighting this ban in court until we are certain that texans s ability to have abortion is protected. meantime texas abortion rights groups called the decision wildly broad saying, we are confident a heartbeat act will ultimately withstand the legal challenge and succeed where other state s heartbeat bills have not. and in less than two months, the supreme court is set to hear a case concerning a mississippi abortion law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks. states across the country will be watching both texas and mississippi as others look to pass restrictive abortion-related measures. reproductive rights groups fear these cases threaten to overturn the abortion protection established under roe v. wade in 1973. of course, we will stay on top of that story for you. now, a source confirms former acting deputy attorney general richard donahue is among
across other states, too? we ve heard from a number of legislators in various states who want to make their laws look more like this. so the answer is yes. about 15 states had passed heartbeat bills, but those bills were blocked by the courts and so, many of those states are going back to make amendments to use the similar mechanism that texas has used here. and again, this is nothing new, the pieces were always there. we ve done citizen enforcement for a long time. we just put all the pieces together in this setting, and so that s one of the reasons the supreme court has done what they ve done because this follows the law. and that is also one reason why thejustice department is doing now what it s doing which is to view what you are doing as sowing the seed of something fundamentally dangerous to the nationwide right of women to get an abortion. why attorney general merrick garland has called your initiative an unprecedented effort to, quote, whose obvious and expressly acknowledg
if you have read any news reports from america or watched anything or, for that matter, from bbc, and talked to abortion providers writ large, they ve told us they have scaled back. most of the clinics say they have scaled back considerably because the heartbeat law is in effect. i read the column from the doctor you re talking about and that s being investigated. i m not sure if anything s been filed, but i ve read that. and again, that s how this works if the abortion industry responds and follows the law, there won t be lawsuits. if they continue to take little babies lives who have a foetal heartbeat, then there will be lawsuits. are you working with lawmakers in other red states republican dominated states to have this anti abortion strategy of yours rolled out across other states, too? we ve heard from a number of legislators in various states who want to make their laws look more like this. so the answer is yes. about 15 states had passed heartbeat bills, but those bill