The Biden administration is opposing Texas’s controversial law that severely restricts abortion.
Department of Justice File a lawsuit Object to Texas invalidating the law Effectively ban Abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. The rule was signed into law in May, stipulating that even in the case of rape or incest, the pregnancy cannot be terminated after the ultrasound detects the “fetal heartbeat” defined by the legislator.The law was opposed, but after the Supreme Court Refuse to stop it Last week, it took effect.
The Ministry of Justice claimed in its lawsuit that the law violated the Constitution.
Just after: “After carefully evaluating the facts and laws, the Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Texas,” Attorney General Garland said of the Texas State’s restrictive abortion laws. https://t.co/V5bMModrrX pic.twitter.com/qOIjV65hvW
— ABC News (@ABC) September 9, 2021
In addition, the lawsuit alleges that Texas has made it more difficult to challenge the law in court by allowing ordinary citizens to act as “bounty hunters” instead of relying on the state’s executive branch to enforce the law. The law allows state residents to sue providers, doctors, nurses, and even those who drive women to an abortion appointment for $10,000.
The lawsuit states: “It is difficult to imagine the goal of Texas-to make abortion clinics operating in the state too risky to prevent women in Texas from exercising their constitutional rights and at the same time obstruct judicial review.”
In addition to constitutional rights issues, the law also conflicts with federal regulations and prohibits federal agencies from performing their duties related to abortion services.
The government is seeking a ruling stating that the law is “null, invalid and invalid,” and a permanent injunction that prevents the state of Texas from enforcing the law.
Proponents of abortion expressed appreciation for the actions of the Ministry of Justice.
Brigitte Amiri, Deputy Director of the Department of Justice, said: “The first step of the Department of Justice is to correct the injustice to the people of Texas and prevent this disaster from following other promises in Texas. State performance is crucial.” The Reproductive Freedom Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, in Statement published on the organization’s website.
It is foreseeable that anti-abortion activists hold the opposite view of the new lawsuit.
“President Biden and his administration need to stop facilitating the killing of unborn babies,” Laura Echevarria, communications director for the National Right to Life, a life-support organization, said in an email. “On the contrary, President Biden, AG Garland and this administration should do all they can to protect lives rather than destroy them.”
The lawsuit opened the next step in the struggle for abortion rights.
With an all-conservative majority in the Supreme Court, many people predict that this landmark Rowe v. Wade Opinions on the legalization of abortion nationwide in 1973, Will be chopped off.
The success of Texas may inspire other states that have tried to prevent abortions in the past. More than a dozen states tried to enact laws similar to Texas, but most of them were rejected in federal or state courts. Axios reportNow, some of these states, including Arkansas, Mississippi, and Iowa, can try again.
Since last week, one state has begun to take measures to limit abortion.On Tuesday, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) signed an executive order Prohibited to use Telemedicine during abortion and changes to the state’s chemical abortion drug prescription and distribution rules.
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