Texas anti-abortion law remains in effect ahead of Nov. 1 Supreme Court review

The US Supreme Court announced Friday that it would review Texas’ abortion law on November 1, with the high court refusing to suspend application of the law at the same time.–

The controversial law is not immediately suspended. The United States Supreme Court announced on Friday afternoon that it would review Texas’ abortion law on November 1. But also that she would not suspend the text in the meantime.

The administration of President Joe Biden had seized Monday the Supreme Court in order to block this law which prohibits any voluntary termination of pregnancy as soon as the heartbeat of the embryo is detectable, that is to say around six weeks of pregnancy, when most of women still do not know they are pregnant.

A law in force on September 1

The case law of the Supreme Court guarantees the right of women to have an abortion as long as the fetus is not viable, ie around 22 weeks of pregnancy. But the text of Texas has a unique device: it confides “exclusively” it is up to citizens to ensure that the measure is respected by encouraging them to file a complaint against organizations or people who help women to have illegal abortions.

The Supreme Court, where the conservative judges have a majority, had already been seized for the first time and had invoked these “New questions of procedure” to refuse, on September 1, to block the entry into force of the law. She had not commented on the substance. The federal government then entered the legal arena, filing a lawsuit against Texas on its behalf.

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