How terribly terribly sad. Hopefully there is appeal to this ruling already in the works. So very tragic.
Actually, what’s terribly, terribly sad so very tragic is the fact that the people and politicians of Texas wasted their time on this pointless, partisan nonsense rather than pursuing viable, substantive solutions to the problem of abortion, leading indeed to the end of the practice.
Texas lawmakers knew full well this measure was un-Constitutional, yet they enacted the law anyway in bad faith, and the measure was invalidated accordingly and correctly.
And the judge’s ruling will be upheld on appeal because
Griswold/Roe/Casey is long settled, accepted case law.
Again, if Christian fundamentalists and others on the social right truly wish to see an end to abortion, they’ll stop with the inane, un-Constitutional laws violating citizens’ privacy rights and start at the long, difficult task of bringing about a workable solution.