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President Joe Biden said in a statement on Wednesday that the new Texas law prohibiting the Most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy “openly violate” the constitutional right established by the decision of 1973 of the Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade .
Texas state law regulating the right to abortion went into effect early Wednesday morning, after the Supreme Court did not rule on the requests of the defenders of the reproductive rights of women who asked to block this law , which is one of the most restrictive in the United States.
The absence of judicial intervention by the Supreme Court has made the norm, known as Law 8 of the Senate, come into force, pending the Supreme Court adopting a resolution in this regard .
The law specifically prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks, before 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 you offer at least $ 10, 000 dollars to citizens who successfully sue anyone who helps pregnant people have abortions that violate these prohibitions.
Biden said, “Texas law will significantly affect women’s access to the health care they need, particularly for communities of color and people with low incomes,” Biden said.
“And, outrageously, it delegates to private citizens to bring lawsuits against anyone they believe has helped another person to have an abortion, which could include including family members, healthcare workers, reception staff at a health care clinic, or strangers with no connection to the individual, “he added.
” Me The administration is deeply committed to the constitutional law established in Roe v. Wade for almost five decades and will protect and defend that right. ”
One of the biggest difficulties for Biden is that the Texas rule is designed to make it difficult for the courts, since normally a lawsuit that seeks to block a law as unconstitutional appoints government officials as defendants.
But that law prohibits state officials from enforcing the legislation by delegating in individuals the ability to report anyone who leads to perform an abortion.
No other similar law prohibiting abortion at six weeks gestation – when the fetal heartbeat can be detected and many women still do not know they are pregnant – has gone into effect in the United States.