The ruling deals a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a longstanding national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.

  • Schadrach
    6•1 year ago

    Their intent was clear as some states even had trigger laws that would enact the moment Roe fell.

    And some, like mine, just never repealed the old law against it. No need to pass a trigger law when the old unenforceable abortion ban that’s literally older than the state can suddenly become enforceable.

    EDIT: Surprised no one commented on the “literally older than the state” part. I’m in WV, our old abortion ban was carried over when we more or less imported Virginia’s criminal code wholesale when we broke off from Virginia to stay with the Union in the Civil War.