Last month, plaintiffs in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson filed an emergency request to block Texas’s new law prohibiting nearly all abortions. [1] On September 1, the Supreme Court denied their request, allowing the nation’s most restrictive abortion law to go into effect. To fully grasp this case’s significance, it is necessary to examine the content of the Court’s decision, the dissents, and the key legal questions that the judgment leaves behind.

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