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Texas Supreme Court sets Feb. 24 as the day it will hear oral arguments in Texas’s Heartbeat Law

Jan 27, 2022

Thousands of unborn babies saved

By Dave Andrusko

Six days after accepting the case, the Texas Supreme Court today announced that they have set February 24 as the date for oral arguments in a challenge to the Texas Heartbeat Law—S.B.8.

Pro-abortionists desperately wanted the case sent back to U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, the trial judge who briefly blocked S.B.8. in October.  His order was put on hold by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. 

The appeals court in turn “sent the case [Whole Woman’s Health vs. Jackson] to the state Supreme Court for certification, saying they couldn’t answer the enforcement question, which they say is a matter of state law,‘” Eleanor Klibanoff wrote.

The narrow issue before the Texas Supreme Court is “whether the state officials specified in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month have the power to enforce the abortion law,” The New York Times Adam Liptak reported.  The Supreme Court, in its December 10th opinion, said the legal challenge could continue but only against Texas licensing officials who oversee nurses, physicians and pharmacists.

“[T]he U.S. Supreme Court threw out most challenges to the law and left only state medical licensing officials as possible lawsuit targets because they can revoke a doctor, nurse or pharmacist’s license if they violated the law,” according to Klibanoff.

The Heartbeat Law took effect September 1 and, with the exception of Judge Pitman’ short stay, has been effect ever since. There is no question that the law has already saved thousands of unborn babies’ lives.

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