In Texas, abortion is banned except when the life of the mother is at risk. In the Idaho case, the Supreme Court's decision indicated that the majority believed the court intervened too early. The justices did not address the underlying question of whether the federal law, the Emergency ...
The Supreme Court decided Monday that a court order finding Texas hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a state abortion ban will stay for now.
Since it took effect in September, the law has imposed the most restrictive abortion curbs in the nation since the Supreme Court first declared a woman's right to an abortion in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In its first month of operation, a study published by researchers at the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not decide a dispute over emergency abortions in Texas. The justices declined to take up the case challenging a lower court order that says hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations.Oct 8, 2024 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A court order that says hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a Texas abortion ban will stay for now, the Supreme Court said Monday. The decision is another setback for opponents of Texas’ abortion ba...
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Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major case on whether a Texas law makes it too difficult for women in the state to get abortions. Topics discussed include the Texas law's requirement that doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, the decision of a ...
AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — After lawyers representing a Texas woman, on Monday, said their client fled the state to get an abortion, the state’s highest civil court ruled that a lower court’s order authorizing her to get the procedure in Texas was improper. In their unanimous decision, the...
The Texas Supreme Court determined that the state abortion ban did not put the plaintiff’s health at risk, reversing a decision by lower courts. The plaintiff in this case was comprised of several Texas women who had health issues during their desired pregnancies. They argued th...
To prevail, they still need Justice Anthony Kennedy's vote, along with the reasonably certain votes of four more liberal justices, just as they did before Scalia's death. Kennedy was part of the 5-4 majority to reaffirm abortion rights in 1992, then wrote the court's decision in 2007 tha...