{"id":949696,"date":"2021-11-01T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949696"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:14:29","slug":"supreme-court-hears-arguments-on-texas-heartbeat-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-hears-arguments-on-texas-heartbeat-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Texas Heartbeat Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fsupreme-court-hears-arguments-on-texas-heartbeat-act%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=949696&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.653203342618\">\n<p>The United States Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on the constitutionality of Texas\u2019 Heartbeat Act.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/22\/supreme-court-hear-case-against-texas-abortion-law-heartbeat-act\/\">Texas law<\/a>&nbsp;effectively bans most abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which typically occurs around 6 weeks after conception. The law is enforced through civil lawsuits against individuals who perform abortions illegally or who knowingly help women to get abortions after the baby has a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.43949044586\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breyer &amp; Sotomayor return to the floodgates issue. They are pressing Stone on all sorts of hypothetical S.B. 8-style laws that could use private enforcement to infringe constitutional rights, such as the racial integration of schools or the right to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCOTUSblog\/status\/1455209339791319049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The private enforcement mechanism was a response to district attorneys stating their intent to not enforce any abortion bans, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/03\/texas-state-senator-abortion-supreme-court-heartbeat-act\/\">Republican Texas state Sen. Brian Hughes<\/a>. While abortion bans are frequently blocked in court, Texas\u2019 Heartbeat Act quickly resulted in a 50% decline in abortions performed in the state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/10\/29\/upshot\/texas-abortion-data.html\">according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/01\/politics\/supreme-court-texas-abortion-law-arguments\/index.html\">questioned<\/a> Texas about the prospect of other states creating laws with similar enforcement mechanisms to block constitutionally protected rights such as freedom of religion. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/29\/joe-biden-did-not-discuss-abortion-pope-francis-told-keep-receiving-communion\/\">(RELATED: Biden Says He Did Not Discuss Abortion With The Pope, Was Told To \u2018Keep Receiving Communion\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marc Hearron, senior counsel to the Center for Reproductive Rights, told Justice Sonia Sotomayor the law created a \u201cchilling effect\u201d on the exercise of constitutional rights. Justice Gorsuch questioned Hearron on whether this effect was unique, citing gun restrictions, pandemic restrictions and restrictions on religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court will hear <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/supreme-court-abortion-case-mississippi-roe-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens-health\/\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019 Health Organization<\/a> Dec. 1. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2021\/09\/major-abortion-case-set-for-argument-on-dec-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a> is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on the constitutionality of Texas\u2019 Heartbeat Act.The Texas law\u00a0effectively bans most abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"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-949696","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\/949696","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949696\/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=949696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}