U.S. Federal Court Restores Texas Anti-Abortion Law

A Federal Court of Appeal in the United States this Friday evening reinstated the restrictive anti-abortion law implemented in Texas, just two days after a judge temporarily blocked him.

The decision to restore the law, which came into effect on September 1 and bans virtually any termination of pregnancy in Texas, it was taken by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative in the country.

The Attorney General of Texas, Republican Ken Paxton appealed the ruling on Friday adopted by a federal district judge on Wednesday.

The Court of Appeal did not intervene to assess the matter, but temporarily lifted the blockade while waiting for the government of Joe Biden, the litigant in the case, to respond to Paxton’s appeal, for which has a deadline until Tuesday.

Whatever the final decision of the court of appeal, most likely the case will end again before the Supreme Court, which refused to study the law a few weeks ago although he admitted that the litigants had raised serious doubts as to its constitutionality.

The magistrate who blocked the law on Wednesday, Robert Pitman, ruled that Texas “Created an aggressive and unprecedented mechanism to deprive its citizens of a constitutional right significant and well established ”.

Para Pitman, the law “illegally prevented women from exercising control over their lives” and that his court “will not allow this offensive deprivation to continue for one more day.”

texan law allows individuals to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a pregnant woman with an abortion if they think you are violating the ban and offer rewards of up to $ 10,000 to each plaintiff if you win the case.

This system has so far enabled Texas authorities are shirking responsibility for law enforcement, because the weight of the implementation rests on these citizens and not on the conservative leaders who promoted the veto.

He was this legal vacuum that allowed the law to enter into force a month ago with the approval of the Supreme Court, despite the fact that it expressly contradicts the 1973 court ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States, known as “Roe vs. Wade”.

Texas veto prohibits abortion from six weeks gestation, when many women still do not know they are pregnant, is the most restrictive of the 90 entries into force this year in the country’s territories, promoted by conservative leaders in state congresses.

(With information from EFE)

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