Supreme Court Humiliates Biden, Refuses to Stop Texas Heartbeat Law, and Gorsuch and the Wise Latina Have a Public Spat
By streiff | Dec 10, 2021 4:00 PM ET
The US Supreme Court handed down a long-anticipated decision called Whole Woman’s Health vs. Jackson this morning.
By way of background, on September 1, S.B. 8, the so-called “heartbeat bill” went into effect in Texas. The law had some unique features. First and foremost, it outlawed abortion after the point of a detectable fetal heartbeat. This was a clear challenge to the whole inhumane sham structure of abortion jurisprudence brought into existence by Roe vs. Wade. However, the most interesting feature was creating a private right to action to enforce the law. That means anyone can bring a lawsuit against anyone or any entity involved in aborting a baby after a heartbeat exists. This includes:
Abortionists;
Clinic staff;
Anyone who counseled the woman to get an abortion;
Lawyers representing the abortion clinic;
And anyone providing transportation to a clinic, including taxis and Uber/Lyft.
A successful lawsuit could bring an award of up to $10,000.
The woman undergoing the abortion, however, could not be sued.
The enforcement mechanism is a critical part of the bill because that prevented Texas from being sued and an injunction obtained. Because the enforcement mechanism is civil and not criminal until someone filed a lawsuit, the abortion industry doesn’t have a clear target. In the meantime, abortion ground to a halt in Texas because the “little Eichmanns” of the abortion industry didn’t want to risk their homes and life savings defending against lawsuit after lawsuit.
A group of abortion providers banded together to sue a raft of state officials hoping to find someone who could vaguely be linked to the bill. Merrick Garland’s Justice Department tried to bigfoot its way into a major abortion case by suing Texas.
The ruling below is a little complicated.
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