Texas 6-week abortion ban takes effect, with high court mum

A Texas instrumentality banning astir abortions successful the authorities took effect astatine midnight, but the Supreme Court has yet to enactment connected an exigency entreaty to enactment the instrumentality connected hold.

If allowed to stay successful force, the instrumentality would beryllium the astir melodramatic regularisation connected termination rights successful the United States since the precocious court’s landmark Roe v. Wade determination legalized termination crossed the state successful 1973.

The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott successful May, would prohibit abortions erstwhile a fetal heartbeat tin beryllium detected, usually astir six weeks and earlier astir women adjacent cognize they’re pregnant.