Gov. Rick Perry may have signed the notorious Texas anti-abortion bill into law, but that doesn't mean it's time to knuckle under. The fight against it will now move from the legislature
to the courts:
"The next battle is going to be a court challenge. Immediately. Without question," Democratic state Sen. Royce West told The Huffington Post. "As soon as it's signed by the governor, it's going to be challenged."
West was
not alone in that promise:
"The fight over this law will move to the courts," Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement after the signing. "People are enraged by this law."
Some challenges of other state laws have been successful. A federal judge on Wednesday extended for two more weeks a hold on a Wisconsin provision requiring doctors performing an abortion have admitting privileges at a hospital, while the judge studies whether to block the law.
The law clearly violates
Roe v. Wade and
Planned Parenthood v. Casey; the question is whether the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush appointees of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will care, or whether they—and perhaps ultimately the Supreme Court, will take the opportunity to chip away at abortion rights and access a little more.
Join Daily Kos and Planned Parenthood Action Fund in sending a message: The fight to defend women's health and rights isn't over, and we're in it for the long run.