US Supreme Court refuses to block six-week abortion ban in Texas despite condemnation by President Biden

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block a ban on abortions during six weeks in Texas, representing an “almost categorical ban” on dismissals, despite condemnation from President Joe Biden and outcry among doctors and judges.

The court voted 5-4 late Wednesday to let the law continue after pleas from abortion providers in Texas to intervene and stop the bill banning abortion after six weeks.

Liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor threw the speed in one disagree: “Presented with a call to impose a flagrant constitutional law designed to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evading judicial control, a majority of judges have chosen to bury their heads in the sand."

Sotomayor went on to explain the action “Equivalent to an almost categorical ban on abortions … before many women realize they are pregnant, and months before fetal viability."

Biden expressed his condemnation of the bill earlier Wednesday in a announcement issued by the White House. The US president violated the law of the red state and declared that it “Obviously infringes the Constitutional Court established under Roe v. Wade” - a landmark Supreme Court ruling from 1972 that legalized a woman’s right to seek abortion. The Biden administration promised that “Will protect and defend this right."

Law SB 8, which bans termination after a month and a half after the detection of a heartbeat, will affect at least 85% of women seeking to terminate their pregnancies in the second-largest U.S. state, according to election groups and abortion providers.

In an unprecedented move, the bill gives citizens the authority to sue anyone deemed to facilitate proceedings within six weeks. Civilians can sue abortion clinics, and even drivers escorting women for pointments, for at least $ 10,000. The American Civil Liberties Union claimed that this “Actively encourages private individuals to act as bounty hunters."

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the controversial law in May. Several other, mostly red, states have tried to pass “heartbeat” bills, yet attempts have been blocked by courts.

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