SCOTUS Fast-Tracks Texas Fetal Heartbeat Case, by Thomas Gallatin

At the end of last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to speed up addressing a challenge to Texas’s recently passed SB 8, a law that is designed to severely limit abortions in the Lone Star State. Emergency court-ordered injections against implementation of the law requested by pro-abortion advocates have failed to stick, and SCOTUS has ruled that the law with remain in effect until the case is fully heard and ruled on by the justices.

This was despite strenuous objections from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who lamented the Court’s decision was “enacted in open disregard of the constitutional rights of women seeking abortion care in Texas.” Actually, protecting the lives of preborn girls and boys goes a much longer way toward protecting the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness outlined in our Declaration of Independence than does insisting without constitutional support that abortion is a constitutional “right,” but we digress. …

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