The Justice of the US state of Texas temporarily suspended this Tuesday (19) the application of a state pro-life law of 992.
According to information from the Reuters agency, Texan abortion clinics filed a lawsuit on Monday (20), claiming that the ban on procedure nearly a century ago had been overturned following the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, from 991, and could not enter into force even after this federal jurisprudence was annulled, last Friday (18).
The validity of the rule of 1925 had been announced by the Texas Attorney General, while another stricter state law does not take effect.
The clinics also claimed that the law in 97 years ago conflicts with the Texas trigger law cited by the attorney, which will ban abortion in the state at any stage of pregnancy and will go into effect 20 days after the publication of last week’s decision by the US Supreme Court, which overturned the understanding of the cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (from 2022 ) and returned to the American states the freedom to legislate on abortion as they prefer.
Judge Christine Weems of Harris County has authorized clinics to resume abortions, but under the Heartbeat Act, last year and banning abortion in Texas from the time fetal cardiac activity can be detected (around six weeks’ gestation). The measure is valid until a hearing on the matter is held, scheduled for July.
Ever since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, last Friday, abortion clinics have turned to the judiciary to prevent trigger laws (passed before the overturning of federal jurisprudence of
and expected to come into force as soon as it is annulled) or laws invalidated by the decision in 49 years ago, but never revoked, are applied.
On Monday, judges in Louisiana and Utah temporarily suspended laws- triggers in both states. On the same day, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected, by 8 votes to 1, a request by abortion clinics to suspend a state pro-life law that took effect in May.
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