“I've heard some pretty large providers were already planning to pull out of Texas, at least temporarily, if this law went into effect,” she said. The issue now, she said, is finding a provider in Texas. I am able to provide legal advice and point these women towards resources without fear of being sued.”
Thanks to the judge’s temporary restraining order, at least for the next few weeks, I am protected. “We are already being contacted by women who are in need of services, who we intend to help. “The way that they structured this law, I do think we're going to have more ground to challenge it now than we did before,” she said. She still believes there’s a chance to defeat SB8 in the courts. 13, during which some of the more substantive issues related to this law will be addressed and discussed. A hearing in her case will land in a Travis County court on Sept. On Tuesday, Simpson Tuegel was granted a temporary restraining order and can continue to advise women. She and her co-plaintiffs sued on the grounds that the law restricts attorney-client privilege since attorneys aid women who are seeking abortions. Michelle Simpson Tuegel is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against SB8. As of Wednesday, any person around the country can sue anyone who “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion,” not just the provider. One of the unique and controversial features of the bill is that enforcement of the law falls to private citizens, not law enforcement or government institutions. The bill aims to ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat has been detected - though, most medical professionals consider this a misnomer, as a fetus doesn’t possess a heart at six weeks gestation. Known as the “heartbeat bill,” SB8 has been heavily criticized because it limits abortion to a time when many women may not know they’re pregnant yet. As a result, the law would prohibit nearly all abortions in the state, according to Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman's Health. The majority of people who obtain an abortion in Texas are at least six weeks pregnant. 1 for abortions past six weeks of pregnancy - the cutoff for abortions mandated in the new law. Since mid-August, all 11 of the Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas that provide abortion services have stopped scheduling visits after Sept. 13Īs late as Tuesday evening, some Texas abortion clinics were already turning patients away, even before the law went into effect, while others stayed open until midnight and came back to work this morning.
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