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"Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion opponents have been trying to scale back or undo it. Texas state senator Bryan Hughes, a former personal injury lawyer and author of the Heartbeat Act, led a team in succeeding, at least for now, where so many others have failed. As a social policy, the law, which imposes a near-total ban on abortions in Texas but leaves enforcement up to individual citizens, is deeply controversial. House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said it delivers catastrophe to women in Texas."
<https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/1718578-column-crafty-lawyering-on-texas-abortion-bill-withstood-scotus-challenge-greene>