US Supreme Court mum, allowing Texas 6-week abortion ban
Al Jazeera
The law took effect in Texas at midnight in what advocates say is a major backslide in abortion access rights.
A law in Texas banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has taken effect as the US Supreme Court did not act on an emergency request by pro-abortion rights groups to block the measure. Abortion rights advocates say the law represents the most dramatic restrictions since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe V Wade decision, which legalised abortion across the country in 1973. The Texas law, which was signed by Republican Governor Gregg Abbott in May after passing the state’s Republican-controlled legislature, would prohibit 85 percent of abortions previously conducted in the state, advocates say. They have argued that women commonly do not know they are pregnant at that point – when a heartbeat is first detectable.
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