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A Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis and who was awaiting a decision from the Texas Supreme Court about whether she would be allowed to get an abortion said Monday that she has decided ...
Texas first enacted Senate Bill 8, a six-week abortion ban, in September 2021, nine months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.
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United States v. Texas, 579 U.S. 547 (2016), is a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program. In a one-line per curiam decision, an equally divided Court affirmed the lower-court injunction blocking the President Barack Obama's program.
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision [1] of the US Supreme Court announced on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion.
A second 2021 law—let’s call it Ban B—was a novel attempt at effectively banning most abortions in Texas without waiting for the Supreme Court to give permission, and it largely succeeded ...
United States v. Texas, 595 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that involved the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, a state law that bans abortion once a "fetal heartbeat" [a] is detected, typically six weeks into pregnancy. A unique feature of the Act, and challenges to it, is the delegation of ...
A Texas OB-GYN and legal experts told us what this ruling could mean for women with pregnancy complications who seek abortions in Texas. Here's what the Texas Supreme Court's ruling against Kate ...