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Many, she said, would be too far along in their pregnancies to be treated under the new law.

Of the 79 people on the schedule, she estimated that about 20 would be able to eventually complete their procedures. On Wednesday, she said, the clinic was in uncharted waters. She said patients were waiting in their cars, and also in the waiting room. вЂњPatients were waiting upward of five and six hours to have their procedures done.вЂќ Sadler, who had come from San Antonio to help out. вЂњIt was absolutely organized chaos,вЂќ said Ms. For example, she wondered, if someone knows they are more than six or seven weeks pregnant - roughly the new legal limit - should the clinic advise them to go out of state and not waste money on an ultrasound? Rubino said her clinic had вЂњstruggled so much to come up with any plan to take care of anyoneвЂќ under the new law, and on Wednesday was sorting out what the new policies would be. TheyвЂ™ve been asking, вЂWhat about our families?вЂ™вЂќДr. What happens if everybody is sued, not just me?вЂќ вЂњIf this was a criminal ban, weвЂ™d know what this is and what we can and cannot do,вЂќ Dr. But she said she concluded that doing so would put her staff at risk. Jessica Rubino, a doctor at Austin WomenвЂ™s Health Center, a small, independent clinic in the state capital, said that at first, she wanted to defy what appeared to be an unconstitutional law. That novel formulation has sent clinics scrambling.Дr.

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Justice Elena Kagan criticized the courtвЂ™s practice of deciding important issues in rushed decisions without full briefing or oral argument - on what Supreme Court specialists call its вЂњshadow docket.вЂќ вЂњAlthough the court denies the applicantsвЂ™ request for emergency relief today,вЂќ he wrote, вЂњthe courtвЂ™s order is emphatic in making clear that it cannot be understood as sustaining the constitutionality of the law at issue.вЂќ The chief justice underscored the tentative nature of the majorityвЂ™s ruling. The desired consequence appears to be to insulate the state from responsibility for implementing and enforcing the regulatory regime.вЂќ вЂњThe legislature has imposed a prohibition on abortions after roughly six weeks, and then essentially delegated enforcement of that prohibition to the populace at large. вЂњThe statutory scheme before the court is not only unusual, but unprecedented,вЂќ he wrote. вЂњThe court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and of the rule of law.вЂќД¬hief Justice Roberts wrote that he would have blocked the law while appeals moved forward. вЂњThe court has rewarded the stateвЂ™s effort to delay federal review of a plainly unconstitutional statute, enacted in disregard of the courtвЂ™s precedents, through procedural entanglements of the stateвЂ™s own creation,вЂќ Justice Sotomayor wrote. вЂњPresented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand.вЂќ

вЂњThe courtвЂ™s order is stunning,вЂќ Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. It also left Texas abortion providers turning away patients as they scrambled to comply with the law, which prohibits abortions after roughly six weeks.ДЄll four dissenting justices filed opinions. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to the procedure, should be overruled. The majority stressed that it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the Texas law and did not mean to limit вЂњprocedurally proper challengesвЂќ to it.Д«ut the ruling was certain to fuel the hopes of abortion opponents and fears of abortion rights advocates as the court takes up a separate case in its new term this fall to decide whether Roe v. It said the abortion providers who had challenged the law in an emergency application to the court had not made their case in the face of вЂњcomplex and novelвЂќ procedural questions. The majority opinion was unsigned and consisted of a single long paragraph. joining the courtвЂ™s three liberal members in dissent. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. The Supreme Court refused just before midnight on Wednesday to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions, less than a day after it took effect and became the most restrictive abortion measure in the nation.