{"id":1223154,"date":"2022-01-18T19:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223154"},"modified":"2022-01-18T19:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:39:03","slug":"abortion-clinics-fear-setback-as-lawsuit-against-heartbeat-act-moves-to-texas-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-clinics-fear-setback-as-lawsuit-against-heartbeat-act-moves-to-texas-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Clinics Fear Setback as Lawsuit Against Heartbeat Act Moves to Texas Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fabortion-clinics-fear-setback-as-lawsuit-against-heartbeat-act-moves-to-texas-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Woman-with-baby-in-arms-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A federal appeals court ruled Monday the lawsuit by abortion providers against the Texas Heartbeat Act must move to the conservative-leaning Texas Supreme Court, rather than back to a federal court in Austin that has been the only court to block the law restricting abortions in the state.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: A federal appeals court will move a TX Heartbeat Act lawsuit to the Supreme Court of TX.<\/p>\n<p>This is great news!<\/p>\n<p>Abortionists wanted their case to go to a liberal judge, but this court has a Pro-Life majority.<\/p>\n<p>Text PROLIFE to 40237<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProLife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProLife<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fjyYzaz9Fq\">https:\/\/t.co\/fjyYzaz9Fq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas Right to Life (Text ProLife to 40237) (@TXRightToLife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TXRightToLife\/status\/1483242316496351234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is now no end in sight for this injustice that has been allowed to go on for almost five months,\u201d Nancy Northup, CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which brought the lawsuit challenging the Texas law, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-supreme-court-health-texas-new-orleans-e52dc29e4d6545a9c0a7d4d56c330f5b\">said<\/a>, as reported by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit certified the Texas Supreme Court to take over the case of <em>Whole Woman\u2019s Health v. Jackson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Texas Right to Life celebrated the decision:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is great news for Texas because such action is more likely to ensure a just and favorable ruling, compared to that which could be expected from a pro-abortion federal district judge, to whom the abortion industry asked to send the case. Beyond this, sending the lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Texas is appropriate because the only defendants left in the case are state&nbsp;agencies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMost exciting of all is that the Texas Heartbeat Act has withstood another court decision and is continuing to save an estimated 100 preborn lives every day!\u201d the pro-life group stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An Oklahoma state lawmaker will introduce a Texas-style bill that would allow individuals to sue doctors who perform abortions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0TJLS6zQQ4\">https:\/\/t.co\/0TJLS6zQQ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1483517187960811526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On September 1, Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/01\/texas-becomes-first-state-to-ban-abortion-once-heartbeat-detected\/\">became<\/a> the first state in the nation to enforce a \u201cheartbeat\u201d abortion law that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, generally at six weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Other states have passed \u201cheartbeat\u201d bills, but, once signed into law, abortion rights activists filed lawsuits challenging them. Subsequently, courts have blocked these laws, ruling them unconstitutional in light of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1973 ruling in&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;and subsequent decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas measure, however,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/19\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-signs-heartbeat-bill-law\/\">contains<\/a>&nbsp;a unique enforcement mechanism whereby any private citizen may file a civil lawsuit against an abortion provider or any other individual who \u201caids or abets\u201d a \u201ccriminal abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny person can sue any abortion provider who kills an unborn child after six weeks of gestation\u2014and any person can sue anyone who aids or abets these illegal abortions,\u201d Texas Right to Life said about the provision. \u201cAll of these individuals must pay damages to the person who sued them of at least $10,000 for&nbsp;each&nbsp;illegal abortion that they perform or assist.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A restaurant chain\u2019s Washington, DC, location has refused to honor an event it scheduled with a group\u2019s \u201cMarch for Life Breakfast\u2019 because the organization espouses pro-life views. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2rpCeyGoaE\">https:\/\/t.co\/2rpCeyGoaE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1482716563232935942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In December, the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/10\/supreme-court-allows-texas-abortion-law-to-remain-in-effect-while-lawsuit-continues-against-it\/\">ruled<\/a> the Texas Heartbeat Act (S.B. 8) may remain in effect while the abortion providers challenging it continue with their lawsuit against it.<\/p>\n<p>Other Republican-led states have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2022\/01\/17\/republican-led-states-texas-style-pro-life-measures\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook\">moved<\/a> to pass pro-life measures similar to the Texas law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court ruled Monday the lawsuit by abortion providers against the Texas Heartbeat Act must move to the conservative-leaning Texas Supreme Court, rather than back to a federal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}