The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up the new restrictive abortion law in Texas, according to multiple reports.
On Friday, a majority of the justices decided against blocking the law, which has closed at least a dozen abortion clinics in the state. They split five to four, the reports say.
“Reasonable minds can
perhaps disagree about whether the [U.S. 5th Circuit] Court of Appeals should
have granted a stay in this case," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the majority
opinion, on which Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito concurred, according
to the Texas
Tribune.
"There is no doubt that the applicants have not carried their heavy burden of showing that doing so was a clear violation of accepted legal standards — which do not include a special 'status quo' standard for laws affecting abortion."
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