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The Supreme Court will hear arguments in two pivotal abortion cases regarding the landmark Texas law S.B. 8 on Monday. A lawyer and a former advisor to President Trump, working with America First Legal, argued that the cases center on the question of whether or not Texans have the democratic right to make their own laws and warned that the Department of Justice and abortion activists are aiming to bring about a monumental change in the law that would equate to Roe v. Wade “part 2.”
“The Texas Heartbeat Bill was written to be fully congruent with federal law, state law, and Roe v. Wade,” Stephen Miller, a former senior advisor to Trump and a member of the board of directors at America First Legal, told Fox News. AFL represents four private individuals who have intervened in the cases U.S. v. Texas and Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson.
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“Pro-abortion activists have had to invent one radical extra-legal pathway after another to go after it,” Miller said.
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The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, effectively prohibits abortion at around six weeks and before many women know they’re pregnant. Rather than having the state enforce the ban, the law creates a private right of action against individuals who commit or aid and abet an abortion that violates the law – but not against the woman who undergoes the procedure.
The Supreme Court previously had rejected request for a stay when abortion providers sought to prevent the law from becoming operative until the resolution of a court dispute. The Department of Justice then filed a motion to block the law.
Acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher argued that Texas had “successfully nullified [the Supreme] Court’s decisions within its borders” by circumventing Roe v. Wade and making “abortion effectively unavailable in Texas after roughly…
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