Posted on 10/09/2021 5:20:55 PM PDT by lightman
n Friday evening, a federal appeals court reinstated Texas’ “heartbeat” abortion law after a lower court issued an injunction blocking the enforcement of the law this week, as Rebecca reported.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay, halting U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s ruling on Wednesday which granted a temporary injunction over the law, S.B. 8. S.B. 8, which took effect on Sept. 1, bans abortions statewide once fetal heartbeat is detected.
Following Pitman’s ruling, at least six clinics in Texas resumed providing abortion services past the six-week threshold, which is around the time a fetal heartbeat is detected, as I reported. Now, clinics in Texas that provide abortions will be prohibited to do so pending further legal actions.
On Twitter, one Texas-based abortion provider, Whole Women’s Health, said that every abortion performed during the temporary injunction was a “win” and that “Texans deserve better.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights' President and CEO Nancy Northup said in a statement that the Supreme Court needs to intervene and that “patients are being thrown back into a state of chaos and fear.”
“The Supreme Court needs to step in and stop this madness. It’s unconscionable that the Fifth Circuit stayed such a well-reasoned decision that allowed constitutionally protected services to return in Texas.
Patients are being thrown back into a state of chaos and fear, and this cruel law is falling hardest on those who already face discriminatory obstacles in health care, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, undocumented immigrants, young people, those struggling to make ends meet, and those in rural areas. The courts have an obligation to block laws that violate fundamental rights.”
Adiana Pinon, the senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Texas said in a statement that “[t]he Fifth Circuit has failed again to preserve a critical right that has long existed in the United States.”
“Abortion is critical health care, and no one should be denied safe and legal access to it,” she added.
On the contrary, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, celebrated the Court’s decision on Twitter.
In Pitman’s ruling on Wednesday, he described S.B. 8 as “flagrantly unconstitutional” and “offensive.” Furthermore he claimed that from the moment S.B. 8 became law, “women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution.” The injunction came at the request of the Biden administration, as after S.B. 8 took effect, President Biden promised a “whole-of-government” approach to fight the law. Shortly after, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would sue Texas over S.B. 8. Recommended Conservatives Stunned After Latest Development Regarding Texas School Shooting Suspect Leah Barkoukis
As I covered this week, Paxton said via Twitter that “[w]e disagree with the Court's decision and have already taken steps to immediately appeal it [the temporary injunction] to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” following Pitman’s ruling. Pitman was appointed by President Obama in 2014.
S.B. 8, which was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in a 5-4 ruling the day it took effect. In response, pro-abortion politicians introduced the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would “codify” the precedents set by Roe v. Wade into federal law, leaving states unable to make laws restricting access to abortion.
What’s up with all the headlines putting quotation marks around heartbeat? It’s science, it is an actual heart and it beats...
Agree-it is up to each state to decide, not the fed-if they want to call abortion “healthcare” even though it isn’t healthcare for the unborn humans-that is asinine, as is insisting that rural women are being deprived of abortions, as are minorities, etc-I’m a rural Hispanic female-and women in rural areas have babies-not abortions-families have more kids than in urban areas-there hasn’t even been an abortion clinic anywhere nearby in 15 years that I’m aware of...
The Pro-Murder crowd is very upset because a fetal heartbeat can be detected before 6 weeks. Years ago I went in for a pap smear. My Ob-Gyn said “I think you have a pulsing umbilical cord and that you’re pregnant. Come back in a month or so.” I was. :-) There were no other indicators that I might be expecting. No missed cycles, nothing.
God will NOT be mocked. May they all burn in hell.
If you hear two hearts beating, one of them isn't yours!
In Romans 1:18-32 one of the outward manifestations exhibited by people who have already been turned over to a depraved mind is “they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.”
Being willing to murder your own child is about as unloving and unmerciful as any can possibly be because your own helpless child has the absolute best natural claim to receive care and protection from the parent.
But realize that this, much as with championing homosexuality in society, is a result of being turned over to a depraved mind and not the cause of it.
When you see people who claim to be Christians exhibiting such fruit in their lives as if it were nothing that is something we are to judge: the fruit that they bear. You and I cannot take fire into our bosoms without getting burned and in the same way we cannot have fellowship with those whose fruit says “depraved” because “depraved” tells us about their real spiritual condition that led to the fruit.
Now, what I just wrote may not apply to those who do not nor have ever claimed to be Christians, especially those who have not have much knowledge of the Gospel (which, frankly, potentially leaves pagan Americans still in a lurch because our society is steeped in knowledge about the Gospel which they have rejected).
Nothing is holding them in Texas. They can leave... wait, let me correct that, they are not wanted in Texas.
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