Novel Texas abortion case is back at the Supreme Court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Can you do that with religious liberty?
50% : "It isn't focused in viability, which people had long viewed as a weakness of the original Roe,/Casey framework," she adds, noting that it "makes more sense for [the justices] to clear the decks on S.B. 8 and then talk about abortion -- in probably the way they had wanted all along -- which was through the Dobbs case."
50% : That possibility is why, for instance, a gun rights group-- the Firearms Policy Coalition--filed a brief, essentially siding with abortion providers in the Texas case.
48% : Indeed, this is clearly a flexion point for the court on abortion, and likely a moment of transition.
45% : But now, the federal government has intervened, contending that under the Constitution, it has the authority to go to court to enforce a constitutional right -- a right to abortion that has been established and upheld for nearly half a century.
42% : Therein lies the rub, says Harvard law professor Stephen Sachs, who doubts that the new conservative supermajority will continue to uphold the court's key abortion precedents, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
40% : But as professor Mary Ziegler, author of Abortion and the Law in America, observes, this is not the scenario that even the court's most anti-Roe justices likely envisioned.
39% : The chief justice called the law "unprecedented" because it outsourced enforcement to "the populace at large" in order to "insulate" the state from being held accountable for an apparently unconstitutional law.
36% : At issue is whether a state can nullify a constitutional right--in this case the right to abortion--by delegating enforcement not to state officials, but to private citizens who are authorized to sue abortion providers and anyone else who aids or abets an abortion.

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