Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas Abortion Law “Thanks to a federal judge, Texas’ strict abortion law is now temporarily blocked.”
by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, and will block Texas from enforcing the incredibly strict law which was passed a month ago. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that the law could be enforced as legal challenges to it are pending.
The law prevents pregnant people from getting an abortion if fetal heartbeat activity can be detected. For most pregnancies, that happens around six weeks, a time where many people don’t even realize yet that they’re pregnant. The law is uniquely terrible in that the Texas Legislature deputized private citizens to bring legal action against clinics that allow abortions to occur.
Pitman’s order blocks all officers of the state from enforcing the ban. That includes court clerks and state judges. He prohibits them from “accepting or docketing, maintaining, hearing, resolving, awarding damages in, enforcing judgments in, enforcing any administrative penalties in, and administering any lawsuit” brought under S.B. 8.
Of course, the state has already appealed the order to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court could possibly issue a stay on Pitman’s ruling which would allow S.B. 8 to remain while the courts continue litigation.
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