Biden condemns Texas 'extreme' abortion ban and promises to fight for women's 'legal right' to resign

President Joe Biden has vowed to strike back after an “extreme” Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy came into force when the Supreme Court chose to ignore a legal challenge.

“This extreme Texas law openly violates the constitutional law established under Roe v. Wade and maintained as a precedent for nearly half a century," read a white house announcement reportedly written by the president on Wednesday. Roe v. Wade was a 1972 Supreme Court ruling that found that a woman’s right to seek abortion was constitutionally protected.

“My administration is deeply committed to the constitutional law established in Roe v. Wade nearly five decades ago and will protect and defend this right," Biden’s statement ended.

Biden did not say whether or how he would fight the new law directly. The law, which went into effect in Texas on Wednesday, prohibits women from seeking abortion after six weeks of pregnancy when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, and optional groups and abortion clinics say it will affect more than 85% of abortions in the state.

The law is also seen as a direct challenge to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, who found that abortions performed within 22 weeks of pregnancy - considered the point of fetal viability - were a constitutional right.

Under the law, citizens will be able to sue a provider or person who has facilitated a termination after an interruption of one and a half months. If it turns out to have helped the process, the person will be forced to pay $ 10,000 to the person who brought the case. The American Civil Liberties Union has complained about this unprecedented situation “Actively encourages private individuals to act as bounty hunters."

The bill was signed in May by Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican. Since then, pro-abortion activists had reckoned the Supreme Court would hear emergencies from abortion providers and block the ban while other legal challenges are filed.

The Supreme Court, which is currently on summer vacation, chose on Wednesday not to take any action in an emergency call from a number of abortion clinics in Texas.

The Texas case is not the only challenge for Roe v. Wade in court. When its nine judges return from recess in October, they will hear a challenge to Mississippi’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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