Supreme Court says abortion providers can sue Texas, but heartbeat law remains in effect

The United States Supreme Court has released a decision allowing some lawsuits against Texas’ heartbeat abortion ban to move forward, but has not blocked the law that prohibits abortion once a baby’s heartbeat can be detected.

In a ruling released Friday morning in the case of Whole Woman’s Health et al. v. Jackson et al., the high court examined whether certain abortion providers could “pursue a pre-enforcement challenge.”

“We conclude that such an action is permissible against some of the named defendants but not others,” wrote Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored most of the majority opinion.

“This Court has never recognized an unqualified right to pre-enforcement review of constitutional claims in federal court. In fact, general federal question jurisdiction did not even exist for much of this Nation’s history.”.. (Excerpts from the Christian Post)