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BY KATHY SPILLAR | “The act is a breathtaking act of defiance—of the Constitution, of this court’s precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas.” —Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
In her blistering dissent from the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay Texas’s Senate Bill 8, Justice Sotomayor points out what we already knew: The Texas law, which bans virtually all abortions after six weeks, is unconstitutional. Yet the five conservative justices based their decision on what they said was their inability to rule on “complex and novel antecedent procedural questions” presented by the challengers to the law, even while acknowledging the “serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law at issue.”
In our new Fall issue, constitutional law scholar Michele Goodwin delves into the court’s decision; we take Ms. readers inside the Jackson, Miss., clinic challenging the state’s law that bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks; and more.
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