{"id":261033,"date":"2022-01-18T06:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261033"},"modified":"2022-01-17T22:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T04:30:02","slug":"fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit sends Texas Heartbeat Act to Supreme Court of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Texas Heartbeat Act remains in effect as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/politics\/abortion-law-texas-supreme-court\/269-6cb8049c-f609-4866-84a8-22fac380792b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent<\/a> the case of <em>Whole Woman&#8217;s Health v. Jackson<\/em>\u00a0to the Texas Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Circuit faced the challenge of deciding whether to send the case back to a federal judge in Austin, who had already blocked the Heartbeat Act in October at the request of the Biden administration before his decision was reversed by the Fifth Circuit, or send it to the Texas Supreme Court. The abortionists behind the legal challenge had requested that the Fifth Circuit send the case to the judge \u2014 U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, an Obama appointee \u2014 because he had previously ruled in their favor. In sending the case to the state Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit denied that request on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People in Texas have been stripped of their constitutional right to abortion for more than four months now \u2014\u00a0and pregnant Texans are needlessly suffering with no end in sight,&#8221; alleged Julie Murray, an attorney with Planned Parenthood Federation of America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/more-men-vasectomies-abortion-revealing\/\">Texas urologist reports uptick in vasectomies, claims Texas Heartbeat Act is to blame<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: A federal appeals court will move a TX Heartbeat Act lawsuit to the Supreme Court of TX.<\/p>\n<p>This is great news!<\/p>\n<p>Abortionists wanted their case to go to a liberal judge, but this court has a Pro-Life majority.<\/p>\n<p>Text PROLIFE to 40237<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProLife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProLife<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fjyYzaz9Fq\">https:\/\/t.co\/fjyYzaz9Fq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Texas Right to Life (Text ProLife to 40237) (@TXRightToLife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TXRightToLife\/status\/1483242316496351234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>However, Texas Right to Life <a href=\"https:\/\/texasrighttolife.com\/texas-heartbeat-act-lawsuit-moves-to-state-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, &#8220;This is great news for Texas because such action is more likely to ensure a just and favorable ruling, compared to that which could be expected from a pro-abortion federal district judge, to whom the abortion industry asked to send the case. Beyond this, sending the lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Texas is appropriate because the only defendants left in the case are state agencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Heartbeat Act allows private citizens, not state officials, to enforce the ban via lawsuits against the abortionist and anyone who assists in the abortion other than the preborn child&#8217;s mother. The Supreme Court of the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/10\/supreme-court-issues-opinion-on-texas-abortion-law-challenges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a> in December that the federal lawsuit by abortionists challenging the law can proceed, but only against state health officials, and the case was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-oral-arguments-texas-heartbeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remanded<\/a> to the Fifth Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Circuit&#8217;s 2 to 1 decision on Monday will temporarily transfer the case to the state Supreme Court, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/texas-abortion-law\/2022\/01\/17\/d18b848a-7256-11ec-b202-b9b92330d4fa_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>, which could keep the law in effect for months. The decision <a href=\"https:\/\/context-cdn.washingtonpost.com\/notes\/prod\/default\/documents\/1aae9f85-c33d-4152-a943-e9c56fb6b07e\/note\/67ec63ce-a21d-434d-bad2-54cdcb64098f.#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a>, &#8220;Here, there is a possibility that federal courts could declare S.B. 8 constitutionally infirm even though our conclusions might be based entirely on a faulty understanding of Texas law. To avert creating needless friction with a coequal sovereign in our federal system, this court reasonably seeks the Texas Supreme Court&#8217;s final word on the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Circuit also said its decision is &#8220;consistent&#8221; with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Heartbeat Act remains in effect as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has\u00a0sent the case of Whole Woman&#8217;s Health v. Jackson\u00a0to the Texas Supreme Court. The Fifth Circuit faced the challenge of deciding whether to send the case back to a federal judge in Austin, who had already blocked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":35247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[12025,11280,3594,15262,12461],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fifth Circuit sends Texas Heartbeat Act to Supreme Court of Texas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Texas Heartbeat Act remains in effect as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has\u00a0sent the case pertaining to it to the Texas Supreme Court.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fifth Circuit sends Texas Heartbeat Act to Supreme Court of Texas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Texas Heartbeat Act remains in effect as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has\u00a0sent the case pertaining to it to the Texas Supreme Court.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-18T12:42:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-18T04:30:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Judge-and-Jury.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"846\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7adef4e0468d5391aea329fa8c00c22d\"},\"headline\":\"Fifth Circuit sends Texas Heartbeat Act to Supreme Court of Texas\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-18T12:42:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-18T04:30:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-texas-heartbeat-act-supreme-court\/\"},\"wordCount\":464,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals\",\"Texas Heartbeat Act\",\"Texas Right to Life\",\"Texas Supreme Court\",\"Whole Woman's Health v. 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