The Supreme Court's Stealth Attack on Abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Texas has a mandatory 24-hour waiting period for abortion, and the clock starts with an in-office consultation.
50% : "It's not enforced through criminal penalties or direct government action.
44% : It is creating chaos," Stephanie Toti, senior counsel at the Lawyering Project, which represents the Texas groups that, because they help Texas patients pay for their care, could be sued for "abetting" abortion, told me this morning.
40% : The Supreme Court has, as of this writing, allowed Texas to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy -- before many people even know they're pregnant.
37% : But to ban abortion in the dark this way, even temporarily, exceeds their bleakest imaginings.
37% : The law, which took effect today, not only bans abortion at six weeks' gestation -- which, practically speaking, is two weeks after a missed period -- but empowers private individuals to sue anyone they believe violated it.
33% : But Justice Kennedy was the most attached to that approach - and if abortion is murder (as several of the justices probably think), then some justices may view the 5th Circuit as a little eager, but admirably so, and not want to swat it down."

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