From WSJopinion: The Heartbeat Act was necessary because Roe v. Wade attempted to take the question of abortion out of the hands of American democracy, writes SenBryanHughes
, many people think abortion is off limits to democracy. It isn’t.
Journal Editorial Report: Both the left and right want to politicize the courts. Image: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockThere has been so much ill-informed commentary on Texas Senate Bill 8, the Heartbeat Act, that I feel compelled to explain its provisions and defend its logic. I am the author of the bill, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed in May.
The law does not ban abortions after six weeks. It requires that a physician performing an abortion first check for a fetal heartbeat. If there is a heartbeat, the physician may not abort the child. When a physician performs an abortion without checking for a heartbeat, or finds a heartbeat and performs the abortion anyway, he has performed an illegal abortion.
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