Tag: Texas SB 8

Amici are the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, and 17 other leading national medical societies and associations committed to the provision of safe, quality reproductive healthcare, including abortion.  Amici argue that the Texas abortion ban is contrary to patient health, well-settled law, and core principles of medical ethics. The ban threatens the health and […]

Amici are more than 20 state attorneys general. Amici argue that the Texas abortion ban is unconstitutional, disregards the Court’s precedent and represents an attack on the rule of law. The brief demonstrates that the Texas abortion ban is inflicting grave harms on people across Texas and straining healthcare systems in neighboring states, including negative […]

Amici are local governments, both within and outside of Texas, that support a pregnant person’s constitutional right to abortion. The brief argues that the Constitution does not permit Texas to deputize individual enforcement that will both deny pregnant people their constitutional right and impose harms on local governments that strive to ensure access to that […]

Amici are 128 current and former prosecutors and law enforcement leaders, and former state attorneys general, federal and state court judges, U.S. attorneys, and U.S. Department of Justice Officials. The brief argues that the Texas abortion ban, S.B. 8, is a blatant evasion of federal authority and allowing this scheme to remain in place threatens […]

Listen to the livestream as the Center presents its case--Monday, November 1 at 10 a.m.

Court grants emergency requests by the Center and the DOJ and schedules arguments for November 1—but it fails to block Texas’s abortion ban in the meantime