In Heartbeat Act Litigation, Fifth Circuit Sensibly Certifies State Law Question to Texas Supreme Court | National Review

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Many people seem to imagine that a ruling by the federal district court that enforcement by licensing officials would violate the abortion providers' rights under Roe and Casey would be some sort of gamechanger for S.B. 8.
43% : Another possible answer is that licensing officials possess state-law authority to enforce S.B. 8 against the abortion providers but that doing so would violate the abortion providers' rights under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
41% : That is an answer that the federal district court on remand might provide, but the lack of any imminent threat of enforcement by the licensing officials might well mean that the abortion providers are not entitled to any relief at any time in the foreseeable future.

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