Editorial: The Supreme Court's ruling on a Texas abortion law won't restore access to abortion anytime soon (via latimesopinion)
for abortion providers — or the millions of women of child-bearing age — in the Lone Star State. The court refused to block the law that allows vigilante lawsuits against abortion providers or anyone else who helps a woman get an abortion after six weeks of gestation, or allow abortion providers to sue Texas state court clerks and judges.
That is just a sliver of a win for the advocates who wanted a way to legally challenge the constitutionality of the law, which has virtually stopped abortions in Texas. The six-week limit defies Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who would have allowed state clerks to be sued, is sure worried about what this ruling means for the role of the Supreme Court, writing in a dissent: “Texas has employed an array of stratagems designed to shield its unconstitutional law from judicial review.”