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Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. There were no publicly noted dissents.

The decision comes weeks before a presidential election where abortion has been a key issue after the high court’s 2022 decision overturning the nationwide right to abortion.

The justices rebuffed a Biden administration push to throw out the lower court order. The administration argues that under federal law hospitals must perform abortions if needed in cases where a pregnant patient’s health or life is at serious risk, even in states where it’s banned.

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[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So your stance is that the Democrats under Obama should have used political capital to push for legal abortion when abortion was already legal? Or am I missing something?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think the excuses for Obama are helpful. Not now, and not then. Even when he was president, it was very clear that the issue needed to be settled by Congress, and he had the power to do it.

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

And right here I no longer believe you're debating this in good faith.

When Obama was president, abortion had been legal for like forty years. And, although I wish it had done more, the ACA was and is a very important piece of legislation. But, it was obvious they should've instead focused on fixing something that, at that time, wasn't broken? Yeah, no.