“Our priority next step is continuing to advocate for the elimination of abortion,” she said in an email to CNA, noting that the US Supreme Court is set to consider a case involving Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, a case that many pro-life advocates say could lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Osman urged Catholics to contribute to a culture of life by supporting pregnancy centers and abortion alternatives, and to pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of those who support it.
In November 2017, a federal district court temporarily blocked the Texas law, saying it was unconstitutional because it placed an “undue burden” on a woman’s “right to an abortion.” Courts have blocked similar laws in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
In October 2020, a three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld that ruling, issuing a permanent injunction. The 2-1 majority said requiring women to undergo more costly and less common alternatives for second-trimester abortion procedures would infringe upon a woman’s right to choose abortion.
Abortion providers who were party to the case had argued that requiring other methods of “fetal demise” rather than dismemberment with forceps pose health risks for the mother.
Texas appealed the 2020 decision, sending the case before the full 17-judge US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The full court, in its Aug. 18 ruling, found that the district court had “committed numerous, reversible legal and factual errors.”
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