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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. 

Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law. 

The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues. 

The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

I look forward to stacking the court.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

I hate this phrasing. It’s not stacking the court. It’s fixing perceived political bias in the court back to neutral where it belongs.

[-] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Or just fix the problem at its source, and disallow judges from holding a political party.

[-] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

The entire reason that they're appointed positions in the first place was to prevent just that. The actual problem is that these are lifetime appointments with no way to remove them. What we really need is some damn term limits.

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