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The Texas Tribune reports:
The Texas Supreme Court dealt a final blow to abortion providers’ federal challenge to the state’s latest abortion restrictions Friday.
The court ruled that state medical licensing officials do not have authority to enforce the law, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. This was the last, narrowly cracked window that abortion providers had left to challenge the law after the U.S. Supreme Court decimated their case in a December ruling.
The law has a unique private-enforcement mechanism that empowers private citizens to sue anyone who, in the law’s language, “aids or abets” an abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy.
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Breaking: The Texas Supreme Court effectively ended abortion providers’ federal challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion law on Friday after ruling that Texas medical licensing officials do not have the authority to enforce the law. https://t.co/K2Z5gjuznI
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 11, 2022
BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court ruled that our lawsuit against Texas’ ban on abortion at 6 weeks of pregnancy, SB8, cannot proceed.
SB8 will remain in place in Texas for the foreseeable future.
This is a devastating blow for abortion rights in Texas and across the country.
— ACLU (@ACLU) March 11, 2022
NEW: Texas Supreme Court slams door on federal-court lawsuit seeking to block Texas’ privately-enforced abortion ban. #SCOTUS left this option open last Dec. but it now looks ineffective. w/@AliceOllstein https://t.co/xvykyjmsJe
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) March 11, 2022