Supreme Court Rejects Abortion Providers’ Request To Stay Texas ‘Heartbeat’ Law

The Supreme Court declined to stay a Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks in a 5-4 decision on Thursday.

The ruling comes 24 hours after the Texas law went into effect on Wednesday morning, banning abortions in almost all cases after cardiac activity is detected in the unborn child. The court’s decision sets up a potentially historic win for the pro-life movement by overturning Supreme Court precedents set in 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and in 1973 in Roe v. Wade, according to The Washington Free Beacon.