As LifeSiteNews has covered, the Texas Heartbeat Act took effect Wednesday, empowering private citizens to sue any abortionist who commits any abortion if a heartbeat can be detected (generally as early as six weeks), or who doesn't bother to look for one before aborting. The novel law keeps state prosecutors out of the matter entirely, instead unleashing on the abortion industry the threat of being buried in more civil suits than they could handle.

Better yet, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 not to block the law from taking effect, meaning that—for now, at least—Texas abortionists are the ones on the defensive for a change. While one pack of monsters at Whole Woman's Health in Fort Worth reportedly rushed to kill 67 babies in the 17 hours before Tuesday's midnight deadline, overall the abortion industry appears to be playing it cautiously; Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman's Health say they have stopped scheduling abortions beyond six weeks.

Read that again: abortionists stopped committing abortions. That doesn't happen after most state pro-life laws. For now, the threat of crushing lawsuits is working.

Naturally, the abortion lobby is apoplectic. Failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke for many of her ilk when she declared that the Court "gutted Roe v. Wade":

If only.

As great as these developments are, pro-lifers should brace for more twists and turns before declaring victory. The unsigned Supreme Court decision took great pains to clarify that its reasoning was strictly procedural, relying in large part on the fact that neither the state nor "the sole private-citizen respondent before us" would actually be enforcing the law. Indeed, it concluded by stressing that the decision made no "conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas's law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts."

In other words, while the law stands for now, the Supreme Court might strike it down later, or allow another federal court to strike it down... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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