An appeals court has ruled, again, that a Texas abortion law, banning procedures after the heartbeat of the unborn child can be detected, can stand.
President Biden’s radically pro-abortion administration has been working frantically to try to defeat the law, which has created obstacles for abortionists and abortion fans since it allows any individual to enforce it by suing those who provide illegal abortions.
Fox News said the decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals on Thursday followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s precedent, which allowed the law to take effect without ruling on the law itself.
The fight has erupted just as that court is scheduled to hear another case that would provide limits for abortions, and pro-life organizations have been discussing that coming decision as a potential way for the original 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that created a right to abortion to be overturned.
If that would happen, regulation of abortion would return to the states.
And it’s not as unreasonable as pro-abortion activists claim, as even the author of the Roe decision said if the personhood of the unborn was established, then the Constitution would protect that person, not allow him or her to be killed up to the moment of birth.
The 5th Circuit’s decision was 2-1 and allowed the Texas law to remain in place as the court case proceeds.
A statement from the Texas attorney general said the decision was a “testament that we are on the right side of the law and life.”
Fox News explained, “It marks another setback for the Justice Department and Texas abortion providers in their efforts to derail the law, which has thus far prevailed because of a unique structure that leaves enforcement up to private citizens. Anyone who brings a successful lawsuit against an abortion provider for violating the law is entitled to claim at least $10,000 in damages, which the Biden administration says amounts to a bounty.”
The report continued, “A 1992 decision by the Supreme Court prevented states from banning abortion before viability, the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, around 24 weeks of pregnancy. But Texas’ version has outmaneuvered courts so far due to the fact that it offloads enforcement to private citizens.”
Eighteen state attorneys general also have come out in support of the law.
ABC reported the 5th Circuit did not provide details about its decision.
The Susan B. Anthony List pro-life organization’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said of the dispute, “The people of Texas speaking through their state legislators acted to protect unborn children with beating hearts, who are as human as you and me.”
Biden, whose politics have taken him into the rabidly pro-abortion camp now, earlier berated the Supreme Court when it allowed the Texas law to take effect, saying, “By allowing a law to go into effect that empowers private citizens in Texas to sue health care providers, family members supporting a woman exercising her right to choose after six weeks, or even a friend who drives her to a hospital or clinic, it unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts.”
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