Saturday, September 11, 2021

The Justice Department sues Texas over abortion ban.

…The agency argued that "the United States may vindicate its interest in preventing Texas from effecting" a law "that flagrantly infringes the constitutional rights of the public at large and seeks to block the injured members of the public from challenging that law in court." It also identified multiple programs funded by the federal government that "abet" abortion in violation of S.B. 8. For instance, the Job Corps and the Office of Refugee Resettlement require contractors to allow access to abortion; the Bureau of Prisons must let incarcerated people terminate pregnancies; and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services compels Medicaid coverage of abortions due to rape or incest…


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