The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas hospitals do not have to provide abortion care in violation of the state's law, the Associated Press reported. President Joe Biden's administration has sought to override state laws with a federal mandate.
This ruling represents another affirmation of the Texas abortion ban that Democrats have hoped to chip away at with these challenges. The administration appealed a lower court's decision to uphold the state law, but the court's ruling Monday will allow it to stand.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the decision "a major victory at SCOTUS that will protect Texas medical providers from being forced to violate State law" in a post to X, formerly Twitter Monday. "No Texas doctor should be forced to violate his or her conscience or the law just to do their job."
This is a major victory at SCOTUS that will protect Texas medical providers from being forced to violate State law. No Texas doctor should be forced to violate his or her conscience or the law just to do their job. We successfully sued and stopped the Biden-Harris… https://t.co/H6QNMyUERm
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 7, 2024
The ban on abortions in Texas has been in effect for more than two years. Several legal challenges have sought to overturn the law protecting the unborn in favor of a woman's right to kill her baby in the womb.
Monday's decision was the latest attempt to fail. The Biden administration claimed that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act was enough to compel doctors to commit abortions if there was a threat to the mother's life or health.
It applied in hospital emergency rooms that accept Medicare funding, which means most facilities in the U.S. Still, the justices agreed with a lower court to keep the law protecting the conscience rights of doctors and the lives of the unborn.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has staked her chances at the White House on the bodies of those children, railed against the decision. "I will never stop fighting for a woman’s right to emergency medical care — and to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade so that women in every state have access to the care they need," Harris said following the decision.
Harris and her GOP opponent, former President Donald Trump, are using this issue as leverage in their respective campaigns. Trump was responsible for appointing the justices who overturned the Roe v. Wade decision in 2022.
Besides the national race, two candidates for Senate have similarly used the issue to motivate their respective voters in Texas. GOP Rep. Colin Allred's pro-abortion stance is pivotal to his challenge against Sen. Ted Cuz for his U.S. Senate seat.
"When I’m in the Senate, we’re going to restore Roe v. Wade," Allred said at a Fort Worth, Texas, campaign event. The Democrat's crowd heartily cheered for the slaughter of the unborn, as many leftists are fond of doing.
Notably, Cruz did not use the issue against his opponent in a campaign event on the same day. However, opponents of the law claim that women will die over this decision.
"Reproductive rights are under assault in this country, and women’s health and lives remain in danger from the chaos and confusion caused by overturning Roe," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra claimed. Even if it were true, that does not address how liberal abortion laws cost millions of babies their lives.
The debate over abortion is ugly and disturbing to those who value human life. Unfortunately, an entire political party and its constituents believe that a woman's right to kill her child in the womb is paramount to all else.
