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That represents a partial victory for pro-choice litigants, but the Court returned to a single track for its abortion review. That track originates in Mississippi, not Texas. Dobbs will remain the key decision on reproductive rights and is likely to answer many of the questions in the ongoing Texas litigation.
Not only is there a pending case on the docket of the Court that has long been viewed as a serious threat to Roe , but the White House and the House of Representatives are threatening immediate actions that could also create new challenges for pro-choice litigants. Challenges to the Texas law will take months. to codify Roe.
Indeed, as I previously wrote , efforts to create a new federal law or new federal enforcement effort to create a new basis for challenges by pro-life litigators. The fact is that a greater challenge to Roe is not coming from Texas but Mississippi.
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