The Supreme Court will hear an emergency request to block Texas’s new abortion law, which bans the procedure once fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks. The law, known as Senate Bill 8, has already gone into effect and has been the subject of intense legal battles. The request for an emergency stay comes from the U.S. Department of Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union, who argue that the law is in conflict with the Supreme Court’s precedent on abortion rights.
