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Nearly 50 years after Texas was the center of the "Roe versus Wade" Supreme Court decision that legalized ...

AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on a narrow challenge to the state’s law that created a near-total abortion ban.

Some of the most kons quentd shl cases in history are before the supreme court including the decision on mississippis abortion ban aimed to overturn roe v. wade. the court is facing sharp criticism for the rulings in 2021. as polling from gallup shows american support of the high court dropped to 40%, an all time low. more tonight from msnbc news justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: abortion began to dominate the supreme court term before it started. in early september they allowed ...

Um, shes eating the rocket. ♪♪ lunchables! built to be eaten. next year the supreme court is expected to make a decision on one of the most significant cases in decades concerning abortion. pete williams has more on what we can expect from the court in 2022. >> reporter: in early september, the justices allowed texas to continue enforcing sb-8 while a battle over the constitutionality raged on. the law bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allows anybody anywhere to sue anyo...

Nbc news justice correspondent pete williams looks ahead at what might be -- what might be ahead, rather, for the nations highest court. >> reporter: abortion began dominating this supreme court term even before it officially started. in early september the justices allowed texas to continue enforcing sb-8 while a battle over its constitutionality raged on. the law bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allows anybody anywhere to sue anyone who violates it. a bitterly divided supre...

On vigilanteism and finding a way to distinguish it from the sb-8 case. if one thing the trump era brought us it is the absence of shame. mitch mcconnell did it when he refused to vote on merrick garland and coasted through when it was time to bring in amy coney barrett. there is no shame in hypocrisy. i think the court will see gun rights as a very different right. this one is actually expressed this the text of the constitution, as opposed to abortion rights, which are merely implied. they wil...

Weapons, ghost gun kits, were going to come after you with lawsuits. >> well, its brilliant and it makes the point that the supreme court absolutely refused to do what it should have done, which is to strike down the decision that allowed sb 8, through which texas gave vigilantes the ability to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion. justice sotomayor helped make the case over and over again how bad that action was for the supreme court. whats good for the goose is good for the gander and ...

And in mississippi where theres only one abortion clinic that remains, the majority of their patients happen to be black women. its very clear that in laws such as this that weve seen in texas, sb 8, the mississippi law, that these are laws that have a discriminatory impact against black women. its a disparate impact against them. weve seen in texas with people leaving to california and elsewhere, and sure there have been abortion funds that have helped to underwrite that sum for people who are ...

In for procedures, and low-income women without the means to travel have been left with few options. liberal-leaning justice sonia sotomayor slammed the supreme courts decision, saying the court should have put an end to this madness months ago. my disagreement with the court runs far deeper than a quibble over how many defendants these petitioners may sue. the dispute is over whether states may nullify federal constitutional rights by employing schemes like the one at hand. abortion rights advo...

General ken paxton who were staunch advocates when this law went into effect on october 1st. we havent heard from them just yet, but they will be weighing in. this has become a highly contentious issue here in the state of texas. sb-8, very polarizing across the entire state. after it went into effect back if early september, an abortion rights group did a study across the state and found that abortions fell by about 50%. and just down the road from us in ft. worth, texas, there was a clinic tha...