The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an emergency legal challenge to the Texas law, seeking to immediately block its enforcement.
on Monday set out to try to pass legislation that would solidify abortion rights in the country, as Texas and other states take measures to chip away at the legal right established in the landmark"The radical and extreme Texas bill bans abortion before most women realize they are even pregnant," Representative Norma Torres, a California Democrat, told her colleagues at the start of a House Rules Committee hearing on Monday.
The Texas law, which went into effect this month after the Supreme Court denied an effort to stop it while legal challenges play out, bans abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. For many women, that can come as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before they are aware that they are pregnant.
It has set off a firestorm among abortion rights advocates who argue that the law, which creates a $10,000 civil claim against anyone who aids an illegal abortion, is too restrictive and anti-abortion rights advocates who are looking to mirror the measure in other conservative states.
"I think you're all familiar with what the position of this administration is on a woman's right to choose, as evidenced by the Department of Justice's announcement about their intention to their to file a lawsuit and challenge the Texas law given our commitment to protecting," White House press secretary
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