Abortion Mills Appeal Texas Ruling to SCOTUS
Texas abortion providers made a last-minute plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state's new abortion restrictions law, which is set to come into effect Wednesday and would ban the procedure as early as six weeks of pregnancy — a period when many women are unaware that they are pregnant. Providers and abortion advocacy groups say this would affect at least 85 percent of the abortions taking place in the state. The law would allow members of the general public to sue those who might have violated the restrictions, which providers call a bounty hunting scheme. In the Supreme Court emergency filing, attorneys for providers said the law would likely close clinics across the state and "immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas." Read more...