The Supreme Court is Set to Hear the Texas Abortion Law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Florida has already introduced a bill in its state legislature that mimics Texas's SB 8 with regard to abortion, and other conservative states have said they are looking to follow the model as well.
49% : Legal scholars warn that if the justices side with Texas, states would suddenly be free to pass a raft of other laws restricting other constitutional rights, like gun ownership or same-sex marriage.
44% : The second is scheduled for Dec. 1, when the justices will hear arguments about a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks -- a direct challenge to the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade.
44% : When the state passed a law placing major restrictions on abortion in 2013, roughly half of the state's clinics closed.
40% : Legal scholars have warned that allowing private citizens to enforce laws through the threat of litigation could be used to ban an array of constitutional rights, from abortion to gun ownership to same-sex marriage.
37% : A brief filed by the gun rights group Firearms Policy Coalition, for example, says the case "is important not because of its specific subject matter of abortion, but instead for Texas's cavalier and contemptuous mechanism for shielding from review potential violations of constitutional rights."
32% : But the justices will not directly consider the constitutionality of the law, known as Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), which prohibits abortion after roughly six weeks into a pregnancy.

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