Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent on the Supreme Court taking up Texas abortion law, but declining to block it: 'every day the Court fails to grant relief i S devastating, both for individual women and for our constitutional system as a whole.'
Advocates and providers wanted to see the court lift the abortion ban while it took up the case.
"The legal limbo is excruciating for both patients and our clinic staff. Lack of access to safe abortion care is harming our families and communities and will have lasting effects on Texas for decades to come. We've had to turn hundreds of patients away since this ban took effect, and this ruling means we'll have to keep denying patients the abortion care that they need and deserve," she said in a statement.
The law bans physicians from providing abortions once they detect a so-called fetal heartbeat, which can be seen on an ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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