DThe US government has filed a lawsuit against Texas’ new and very strict abortion law. “The law is clearly unconstitutional,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday of the so-called heartbeat law. Termination of pregnancy Banned from around the sixth week. Garland referred to a 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
“The Department of Justice has the responsibility to defend the U.S. Constitution and uphold the rule of law,” the attorney general said. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Texas, the US government demanded that the law be repealed immediately.
The law does not provide for any exceptions, even in the case of rape
The most stringent abortion law in the United States took effect in Texas earlier this month. From the moment the heartbeat of the fetus can be determined, it prohibits abortion. This is the situation starting around the sixth week of pregnancy, when many women did not even know that they were pregnant. Even in the case of rape or incest, the law does not provide for any exceptions.
It is also annoying that it is not the Texas authorities that should implement the new regulations, but the individuals. Citizens are encouraged to black out people they suspect of assisting women with abortions after the sixth week.
For example, this may affect abortion clinics or their employees, but it can also affect relatives of pregnant women or taxi drivers who bring women to the clinic. If convicted, the plaintiff will receive $10,000.
Attorney General Garland stated that the law makes citizens unrelated to pregnant women “bounty hunters”. He emphasized that the law has taken effect: due to fears of legal consequences, abortion clinics in Texas will no longer perform abortions. “As a result, women in Texas cannot exercise their constitutional rights,” Garland said.
President Joe Biden Last week criticized the Texas law and announced that his government would take decisive action against it. Planned Parenthood, an organization that runs abortion clinics, thanked Biden on Thursday for “using the full power of the federal government to protect Texans from this dangerous and unjust law.”
The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Alexis McGill Johnson, said: “At this moment, patients in Texas are scared, confused, and there is no place to perform safe and legal abortions.” The civil rights organization ACLU described the actions of the Justice Department as “welcome news.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott defended the law. It ensures that “every child’s life can be protected from abortion through heartbeat.” Unfortunately, President Biden and his administration are more interested in distracting them from Afghanistan’s disastrous evacuation and the ruthless open border policy of “protecting innocent unborn babies”.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an urgent motion against the law last week. The Supreme Court did not cite substantive but procedural reasons. The decision of the conservatively-dominated court was made by a small majority of five of the nine constitutional judges.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that “Roe v. Wade” respected women’s right to abortion. Opponents of abortion hope that the Supreme Court will overturn the ruling. When a constitutional judge reviewed Mississippi’s abortion laws, women’s rights organizations looked forward to the fall. Former U.S. President Donald Trump appointed three new constitutional judges during his tenure, pushing the court to a position further to the right.
