By Oma Seddig
The Supreme Court opened the door to fierce backlash (click here) when a narrow majority of justices in a ruling last week upheld a strict Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
From President Joe Biden to advocacy leaders, critics have knocked the court's decision, arguing it flouts the constitutional right to an abortion established nearly 50 years ago under Roe v. Wade. That Supreme Court decision, along with other major abortion rulings since, protect the right to an abortion until pre-viability, or the point when a fetus can survive outside of the womb, which most experts say occurs around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The court's refusal to block the Texas law "unleashes unconstitutional chaos," Biden said last Thursday, hours after the decision was handed down. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit this week in an attempt to block the six-week abortion ban.
"This is the loudest alarm yet that abortion rights are in grave danger, in Texas and across the country," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in response to the ruling....
