Supreme Court Places A Stay On Abortion Law In Texas

[wvit1001]

The Supreme Court has placed a stay on a lower court's ruling that upheld new abortion standards in Texas, to give opponents of a controversial 2013 law time to take their case to the nation's highest court.

The stay is temporary: If the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case, the stay will be lifted and the law will take effect. If the justices agree to hear the case, the stay would remain in effect until a ruling is issued.

The Texas law requires "nearly all Texas facilities that perform abortions to operate like hospital-style surgical centers," as NPR's Jennifer Ludden reported earlier this month.

The law also requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

About half of Texas' 40 clinics have shut down since the law was approved, Jennifer said. She added that if another dozen clinics close, nearly a million women would be at least 150 miles from the nearest abortion provider.

"The Chief Justice, Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito would deny the application," according to the Supreme Court's order about the case, Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Cole, Comm'r, TX DHS, et al.

The Supreme Court had previously ruled that Texas clinics that provide abortions could remain open while the case is litigated — but that ruling elapsed when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the restrictions in early June.

Arguments over the case will likely turn on whether the state has imposed an "undue burden" on abortion providers.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/29/418640904/supreme-court-puts-hold-on-abortion-law-in-texas?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

[D2D]

Why do you want women to needlessly die as a result of unsafe conditions at abortion clinics?

[upyrwazoo]

The Texas law requires "nearly all Texas facilities that perform abortions to operate like hospital-style surgical centers," as NPR's Jennifer Ludden reported earlier this month.

The law also requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.


AND WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT THAT, THE LAW DEMANDS THAT THE PROCEDURE BE DONE AS SAFELY AS AN APPENDECTOMY!

[Truman62]

Yet it is NOT an appendectomy.

Why are their no safeguards on a vasectomy then?

Why no safeguards on ALL in office procedures?

There is no cutting in an abortion, so why the hyper vigilance?

[D2D]

 

There is no cutting in an abortion, so why the hyper vigilance?

A lie!

[wvit1001]

The U.S. citizenship is against you goofy tea party nutcasez. Our society is ready to move along and leave you stuttering old geezers behind.

[upyrwazoo]

Yet it is NOT an appendectomy.


NOO REALLY SHERLOCK? BTW DAVIK ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT GETTING KNOCKED UP? YOU CAN'T GET KNOCKED UP FROM PACKING FUDGE SILLY GIRL!


NOW YOU KNOW WE HAVE TRULY GONE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS WHEN THE LEFT IS TRYING TO KEEP WOMEN FROM GETTING SAFE ABORTIONS!!!! LOL DO THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR?

[D2D]

 

The U.S. citizenship is against you goofy tea party nutcasez. Our society is ready to move along and leave you stuttering old geezers behind.

Got proof of your claim the majority of Americans are for the murder of innocent children?

[Truman62]

How many "unsafe" abortions occur every year?

Was there an "epidemic" of unsafe abortions?

Was there an "epidemic" of voter fraud?

Once again Repocons passing laws for problems that do NOT exist.