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Last night, the Supreme Court officially overturned five decades of settled law and permitted Texas' unconstitutional abortion ban to stand. Yes: They gutted Roe v. Wade without hearing arguments, in a one-paragraph, unsigned 5-4 opinion issued in the middle of the night.
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There is no criminal penalty under TX SB8. It's a strictly civil issue and has no provisions for criminal prohibition, criminal consequences, or criminal penalties for having or performing an abortion. Roe V Wade is untouched. Just go read the law.
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The Supreme Court has not overturned Roe v. Wade. The Court declined to hear a complaint against a new Texas abortion law. The majority opinion states ?we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants? lawsuit?.
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The tweet doesn't say Roe was overturned. It says SCOTUS overturned five decades of settled law. That's true.
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The Supreme Court did not overturn 5 decades of settled law. The procedural questions were quite novel, as recognized by Chief Justice John Roberts. Moreover, Roe v. Wade was not ?gutted.? The substantive merits of that law were not decided.