And that we cannot let they don t rail and distract us from our work that is right in front of us at this moment in time. it was quite a horrific draft opinion. i couldn t believe that i was reading it. but it was right there. on the pages. we have spoken to a number of abortion services providers over the last couple of days and they have said recently and in recent month, particularly in states that have been imposing restrictions or in states neighboring those who have imposed restrictions, that they switched some of their workers, not just from the provision of abortion services, and counseling, and health care, but into logistics, helping people figure out how to travel, where to get the money from, things like that, that is a step further than many of them had to go recently. you re going yet further than that. you have plans to continue to open a new clinic. yes, absolutely. and we are working to open this
Presumably after the senate. based on your reading of where the courts headed here, what is the effect for abortion services providers in texas if the court rules in the way you are anticipating? well, if they rule soon than what it would mean is that the texas challengers, the folks challenging the texas law, would go into federal trial court in texas. and indeed the court of appeals and say, we want to stay of this law, we wanted to not take effect until it is blessed by federal courts. and it s pretty hard to bless this law because it is a straight violation of roe v. wade, so we re taking the united states supreme court decision to really reinstate the law. and that s probably a year away. so i think the effect of today s decision is likely to be, today s argument, is likely that texas loses will be the
Discovery are making, which is let us have a day in court and at least argue whether the texas law is constitutional or not. if texas had its way, you couldn t actually file a lawsuit at all or you would have to wait as long as it takes until someone brought a private bounty hunter lawsuit under this new texas law. that really is it. i think they made a broader claim. they would like to up hold roe versus wade, but that really isn t front and center of the court, and i don t expect them to rule on it in this case. i think they will start to reach that in mississippi, and indeed, may have the texas case come back to the united states supreme court on the roe versus wade question sometimes next year, presumably after the senate midterms. based on your reading of where the court s headed here, what is the effect for abortion services providers in texas if the court rules in the way