The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday allowed a group of clinics that perform abortions to continue, at lower levels, challenging the Texas law that prohibits most interruptions of pregnancy after six weeks of pregnancy. However, the court has allowed the legislation to remain in force in the state as the battle over text validation continues.
The Supreme Court did not debate on Friday whether Texan law violates the abortion right, which was recognized in the US in 1973, following the ruling in the “Roe v. Wade” case, in which it was established in the country that the states do not may prohibit abortion until the so-called “viability”, when the fetus can survive outside the uterus, estimated at around 24 weeks of gestation.
The highest instance of the American justice spoke a month after hearing the arguments of the Joe Biden government and of clinics that carry out abortions, which were centered on the procedures of the legislation and not on the constitutionality of the text.
Today’s decision is limited to saying that these establishments can continue, at lower courts, trying to get a judge to block the Texas law.
If that happens, the most likely is that the state government will file an appeal that would be evaluated by an appeals court, and then proceed to the Supreme Court.
Of the nine judges who heard the case this Friday, eight were in favor of the clinics going ahead with their processes, while Conservative Magistrate Clarence Thomas was in the opposite direction.
The Texas law, which took effect in September, prohibits abortion from six weeks of gestation and does not include exceptions for incest and rape cases.
The law allows any citizen, not just public officials, to prosecute anyone who helps a pregnant woman to have an abortion if they believe the law has been violated.
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