The bill copies provisions of Texas' near-total ban on abortion
Whether the Texas law will survive multiple legal challenges, which could thwart other states’ plans to copy it. Theis weighing whether to let two lawsuits brought by abortion providers and the Justice Department move forward after hearing oral arguments in the cases November 1. The court could potentially issue an injunction that would block the law while the litigation plays out.
SB 8 went into effect on September 1 as the most restrictive abortion law to take effect in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, banning nearly all abortions in the state. The Texas law and the copycat bills it’s inspired are part of a broader effort by Republican state lawmakers to limit or ban abortion, with the Guttmacher Institute reportingstate abortion restrictions have been enacted just this year alone.
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