By Rebecca Shabad -
NBC News
The Supreme Court announced this Friday that it will not preventively block the law that restricts abortion in Texas but will hear the allegations on the case in an expedited manner in early November.
This decision comes a day after state authorities urged the country's highest court to reject the federal government's request to block the legislation.
A group of people demonstrate against the abortion law in Texas, on October 2, 2021 in Austin.Stephen Spillman / AP
The measure, which took effect in September, restricts abortions in that state from six weeks of pregnancy,
before most women know they are pregnant
.
["Has consequences for life." What happens when someone who wishes to have an abortion cannot?]
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on November 1, a month before the hearing set to examine another similar case, in this case in Mississippi.
This state prohibits most abortions after 15 weeks and seeks to challenge the historic Roe vs.
Wade of 1973, which protects the right of the woman to interrupt the pregnant woman.
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Texas noted Thursday that the federal government
does not have the authority
to sue the state and that the federal judge who originally blocked the law wrongly directed his order to state court judges and people allowed by law to sue.
The state encouraged the court to overturn its precedents on abortion.
"There will always be states that try to protect the lives of the unborn through their laws and there will be those who try to challenge those laws, unless and until this court returns the abortion issue to where it belongs: the states," wrote the Texas state attorneys.