Mon Oct 18, 2021 – 3:26 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency application Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to halt enforcement of a Texas law banning abortion once a heartbeat is detectable, after a lower court declined to do so.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to temporarily block enforcement of the Texas Heartbeat Act, which requires abortionists to screen for a preborn baby’s heartbeat and prohibits abortion if a heartbeat can be heard (generally as early as six weeks), with exceptions only for medical emergencies. Texas appealed the decision to a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed Pittman and restored enforcement.
The law’s unique enforcement mechanism, which “exclusively” empowers private citizens to bring civil suits against abortionists instead of state prosecutions, has been credited for the U.S. Supreme Court’s surprising September decision not to block it from taking effect, as well as the decisions of abortion chains Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman’s Health to temporarily suspend abortions past six weeks in the state.
Now, the Daily Caller reports, the Biden administration is trying the
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