Yes, this meeting of Biden and Francis is a teaching moment, but not with the message Biden intended.

Texas’ six-week abortion ban raised enough eyebrows at the Supreme Court on Monday to suggest the justices may reject the attempt to avoid federal court oversight by handing off enforcement to private citizens.

Americans in many states support significant restrictions on abortion.

The new Texas law bans abortions after a “fetal heartbeat” is detected, usually about six weeks into pregnancy. But doctors say that’s not an actual medical term and it’s being used inaccurately.

At least one case slated to be heard in the Supreme Court’s next term promises to be very controversial: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.

Texas’ six-week abortion ban raised enough eyebrows at the Supreme Court on Monday to suggest the justices may reject the attempt to avoid federal court oversight by handing off enforcement to private citizens.

Six justices voiced concern that other states could replicate the controversial law’s enforcement mechanism.

Texas’ new heartbeat law, SB8, doesn’t sit well with the abortion industry. Protecting life in the womb never does.

NO. 19-1392 in the Supreme Court of the United States THOMAS E. DOBBS, M.D., M.P.H. IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS STATE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, et al., Petitioners, v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND ITS PATIENTS, et al., Respondents

By: Jess Bravin – wsj.com – July 22, 2021 Mississippi asked the Supreme Court Thursday to abolish federal abortion rights, arguing in a brief that Roe v. Wade and other precedents entitling women to end their pregnancies in some circumstances trample on states’ 10th-Amendment powers to decide public policy within their borders. In May, the Supreme Court agreed to hear...