In May, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate bill 8, the Texas Heartbeat Act, which banned abortion after 6 weeks.
The bill defines pregnancy as beginning with “fertilization,” and an “unborn child” as “a human fetus or embryo in any stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.”
The bill goes onto to state that those who perform or induce an abortion, with the exception of medical emergencies, may be liable to pay a $10,000 fine for each abortion performed.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, denied a bid to overturn the law.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the other three liberal justices in dissenting, expressing that “The Court’s order is emphatic in making clear that it cannot be understood as sustaining the constitutionality of the law at issue.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor called her conservative colleagues’ decision “stunning.” “Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand,” she wrote.
Despite the unconstitutionality of Roe v. Wade, whereby the Court found a fictional constitutional right to abortion in 1973, the decision has since been referred to as an integral right to kill babies within our Constitution. The Constitution, however, does not refer to any such right.
I'm in favor of Roe v. Wade being overturned because I'm against philosopher-king judges handing down magical rulings from their marble palaces on what they think the Constitution "ought to mean". Living constitutionalism negates the purpose of a written charter to begin with.
— Luke Lattanzi (@LukeLattanzi) September 2, 2021
Texas’ Heartbeat Act has recently caused protests and false equivalencies. Trending on Twitter is #TexasTaliban, where leftists are claiming that conservatives against abortion are like the Taliban.
But even liberals have spotted the irony, as Leftists try to draw parallels between those that oppose mandates and are pro-life.
oh wait these are not pro choice people? they just want the right to get abortions but think the state has a right to mandate medical procedures
oh my bad
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) September 2, 2021
Is being “pro-choice” really about what one can do with one’s own body?
Bingo. It’s never been about their bodies. When it comes to vaccines and abortion, leftists would only be consistent if they refer to “someone else’s body, my choice. “We’ll force you to get vaccinated, penalize you if you don’t; we’ll also kill the babies growing inside of us.” https://t.co/QKTzuQx3g8
— Jacob (@JacobYusufov) September 2, 2021
Ironic how so many in the country believe that people should be forced to inject something into their own body while simultaneously holding that no one can tell them what to do with their own body when it comes to another body growing inside of them that they want to kill? https://t.co/ekff1WoL71
— Jacob (@JacobYusufov) September 2, 2021
There's so much irony, self-centeredness, and ignorance here, it's hard to believe this is serious. "Pray for Texas women…" as women in the middle east are wrapped in garbage bags and would be killed if they had an abortion because that's haram. https://t.co/PlW1lFoED3
— Jacob (@JacobYusufov) September 2, 2021
