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The United States Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy , allowing a measure to go into effect Wednesday remains in effect as the strictest abortion restriction in the nation, reported Bloomberg. com.
The vote was 5 in favor and 4 against, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the three disagreeing Liberal members of the court.
Judges rejected calls from abortion providers to suspend the law while the legal fight against a law that ignores the reproductive rights of women advances.
The measure of the Supreme, a response to a emergency request from abortion providers in the state of Texas, occurred less than a day after the law went into effect , severely restricting access to the procedure.
Those who challenge the Texas abortion law said that the measure will prohibit abortion in at least 85% of patients in the state and will force many clinics to close.
The refusal of the Supreme Court to suspend the application of this law marks a decisive moment , allowing a law to disagree with the precedents of that same court that protect the right to abortion until much later in the pregnancy.
The order hints that conservative court judges may be ready to overturn those precedents, including the landmark Roe v. Wade of 1973, when considering a separate case of the state of Mississippi during the nine-month period beginning in October.
Texas went into effect on Wednesday, causing abortion services to be largely shut down in the state.
The law specifically prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks, before let many women know they are pregnant.
It also makes no exceptions for pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest, if a heartbeat is detected and offers at least $ 10, 000 dollars to citizens who successfully sue anyone who helps people pregnant women to have abortions that violate these prohibitions.
Clinic officials said they had to tell most patients Wednesday that were not eligible to undergo a legal abortion in a Texas facility.
The President Joe Biden said in a statement Wednesday that the new Texas law prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy “openly violates” the constitutional right established by the decision of 1973 of the Court Supreme over Roe v. Wade .