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    Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law in effect, allows only a narrow challenge to it

    WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court declined Friday to block a Texas law that has banned most abortions there and left doctors and abortion clinics with few legal options for challenging it. The Texas law SB 8 makes abortions illegal after six weeks of a pregnancy and authorizes private lawsuits in Texas courts against anyone who violates it. Abortion rights advocates said the law was clearly ...
    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Dec 10, 2021 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court declined Friday to block a Texas law that has banned most abortions there and left doctors and abortion clinics with few legal options for challenging it.

    The Texas law SB 8 makes abortions illegal after six weeks of a pregnancy and authorizes private lawsuits in Texas courts against anyone who violates it.

    Abortion rights advocates said the law was clearly unconstitutional, and they sued state judges and their clerks as well as the state attorney general, seeking a federal court ruling that would freeze the law and shield doctors and clinics.

    But the court’s conservative majority rejected most of what they sought on Friday.

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