The Supreme Court allows abortionists in Texas to file a complaint but leave the ban in place

The Supreme Court of the United States has filed a petition with abortion agencies to sue Texas authorities over their new abortion law, but it has allowed the government to restrict the practice.

In a statement issued Friday, the country’s Supreme Court ruled that abortions could go to trial in lower courts against officials in Texas who “have the power to punish those who have medical licenses”, but not against clerks and judges in the state, or Ken Paxton, the attorney general of the state.

The Supreme Court, which is divided 6-3 between fair and free judges, has also rejected a call from the justice department to suspend the law, one of the most difficult in the US. It prohibits abortion after 6 weeks, before most women know they are pregnant, and do not discriminate against rape or incest.

The Texas abortion ban has sparked a heated debate over abortion rights in the US, with disobedient states being encouraged in recent weeks and a major issue for Roe vs Wade, a well-known 1973 Supreme Court ruling approving abortion.

Friday’s ruling comes less than two weeks from the high court he heard the words in his mouth in the case came with a hospital abortion last Mississippi by the state, which set up a 15-week ban to process and has asked the court to overthrow Roe. judges and meek showed skill in favor of Mississippi.

Texas law extends legal action over the new rules by pushing back in lower courts. In October, a district court in Texas stopped the law the justice department sued the government. The suspension was later reversed by the appellate court.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, one of the organizations representing abortion, said Friday that a court ruling had overturned “the most reliable methods of contraception. [the] the law ”.

It added that the ruling followed “100 legal days that have jeopardized the chances of abortion in Texas and surrounding areas”.

The Department of Justice said in a statement Friday that it “will continue. while evading reconsideration of cases “.

Neil Gorsuch, a judge appointed by former President Donald Trump, said in his opinion he supported the 5-4 majority that the question of whether Texas law was legal was not “in court”.

But Sonia Sotomayor, a judge appointed by Barack Obama, said in a statement that “the court should end this madness a few months ago”, before Texas law comes into force on September 1.

He added that in banning litigation against prosecutors and the attorney general of Texas, the court “is calling on other countries to reconsider the case. [Texas law’s] an example of the abolition of federal rights “.

Following a verdict in a Texas case last month, several judges showing skepticism about a new way of promoting the heart of a new state law.

The law is unusual in that it allows people, rather than the government, to report to public officials to help women have abortions, as well as to earn at least $ 10,000 for doing so.

Experts have explained how the law works as an attempt to overturn Supreme Court decisions that prohibit states from aborting an unborn child.