Chief Justice Roberts Calls Texas Ban on Aborting Babies With a Beating Heart an ‘Unconstitutional Law’, by Terence P. Jeffrey

By Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews, December 10, 2021

Chief Justice John Roberts said in an opinion published today–that concurred in part and dissented in part from the opinion of the court–that a Texas law that bans the abortion of unborn babies who have a detectable heartbeat is an “unconstitutional law.”

He also said that the threat posed by the civil suits the law authorizes “chills constitutionally protected conduct.”

“Texas has employed an array of strategems designed to shield its unconstitutional law from judicial review,” Roberts wrote.

“These provisions, among others, effectively chill the provision of abortions in Texas,” Roberts said. …

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