Fri Oct 22, 2021 – 1:44 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The United States Supreme Court confirmed Friday that it will hear oral arguments over a Texas law banning abortion once a heartbeat is detectable, and will not block enforcement of the pro-life law while the case is pending.
The Texas Heartbeat Act 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. Its unique enforcement mechanism, which “exclusively” empowers private citizens to bring civil suits against abortionists instead of state prosecutions, has been credited for the Supreme Court’s prior September decision not to block it from taking effect.
The Biden administration filed two appeals to block the law, the first of which was initially granted by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman only to be reversed last week by a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The administration tried again Monday, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments on the federal government’s standing to sue over the state law, without agreeing to block it in the meantime.
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