

Wade to the Present,” and Melissa Murray of New York University, who co-wrote the first casebook on reproductive law and is a host of “Strict Scrutiny,” a podcast about the Supreme Court. 8 says and does, I read the law in its entirety and consulted with two professors who have expertise in abortion jurisprudence - Mary Ziegler of Florida State University, who has written several books on abortion law, including “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Abortion providers in Texas said that 85 to 90 percent of the procedures they previously performed were after the six-week mark. The law, Senate Bill 8, bans most abortions after about six weeks - before many people know they are pregnant - and authorizes citizens to enforce it. Texas lawmakers did so through a unique legal approach.

Several other states have tried over the years to limit or ban abortions before fetal viability but have not managed to maneuver past the courts. A new Texas law that the Supreme Court did not block last week has made abortion functionally illegal in the state.
