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Biden govt to ask SC to block Texas abortion law
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IANS | 16 Oct, 2021
US President Joe Biden's administration is planning to ask the Supreme
Court to block Texas' highly controversial near-total abortion ban.
"The
Justice Department (DOJ) intends to ask the Supreme Court to vacate the
Fifth Circuit's stay of the preliminary injunction against Texas Senate
Bill 8," Xinhua news agency quoted Anthony Coley, a spokesman for the
Department, as saying to the media.
The Biden administration
argues that the private enforcement regime is a transparent attempt to
shield what they see as a blatantly unconstitutional ban and that if the
scheme were allowed to stand, could allow states to undermine other
constitutional rights in similar ways, according to a report by The Hill
news outlet.
A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled 2-1 late Thursday night that the state law banning
abortions after six weeks of pregnancy can remain in effect while it
hears the Biden administration's legal challenge.
The Texas law,
which was signed into law in May by Republican Governor Greg Abbott,
also prohibits most abortions, even in cases of rape, sexual abuse, or
incest.
It prohibits any effort to aid, or any intent to aid, the
doctors who provide the prohibited abortions or women who try to get
one.
The law has unique enforcement provisions allowing private citizens, rather than state officials, to sue abortion providers.
Meanwhile,
the US Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments in December in
Mississippi's bid to overturn 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision
guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion.
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