Due to SB8, 'countless people have already been forced to carry pregnancies against their will in a state with a severe maternal mortality crisis.' ACLU AbortionIsEssential
"Countless people have already been forced to carry pregnancies against their will in a state with a severe maternal mortality crisis," said the ACLU.Reproductive rights advocates said Tuesday that women in Texas are suffering and their rights are being violated by the state's forced-pregnancy law as they called on the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to end the delay of their lawsuit now languishing in a lower federal court.
"For 125 days, Texans have fled to find reproductive care. SCOTUS needs to act immediately and put an end to these delays."a right-wing federal appeals court is unnecessarily delaying their case and demanded the court return their challenge to a district court judge.that S.B. 8 could stand in December—banning abortion care in the state past six weeks of pregnancy—the Supreme Court also decided that abortion providers in Texas could move forward with their challenge to the law.
The high court returned the case to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is dominated by conservative judges and has refused to send the case back to the district court which previously ruled in the providers' favor—a delay the ACLU condemned as"unconscionable, cruel, and downright dangerous."a 133% increase in patients from Texas, overwhelming clinics and leaving all patients with longer waits for healthcare.
"Countless people have already been forced to carry pregnancies against their will in a state with a severe maternal mortality crisis,"The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals could prolong proceedings for months, advocates say, unless the Supreme Court requires the panel to return the case to the lower court.
"Absent intervention by the Court, the Fifth Circuit is poised to entertain questions already decided by the Court in direct violation of this Court's mandate and delay further resolution of this case in the district court by at least weeks, and potentially months or more," Marc Hearron, sebior counsel for the CRR,
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