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Posted: 2021-09-02T07:44:29Z | Updated: 2021-09-02T11:43:19Z 'Expand The Court!': Livid Americans Demand Action After SCOTUS Abortion Ruling | HuffPost

'Expand The Court!': Livid Americans Demand Action After SCOTUS Abortion Ruling

The Supreme Court refused to block an extreme new Texas law, stripping women of their abortion right.
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Critics lambasted the Supreme Court on Wednesday night after the conservative majority said it wouldn’t block a restrictive new anti-abortion law in Texas

The new law effectively bans abortion  at six weeks a point when many women don’t even know they’re pregnant and offers bounties  of up to $10,000 to private citizens who successfully sue people for “aiding and abetting” abortions.

Some warned that other red states will quickly pass their own versions of the extreme Texas law. Others urged Congress to pass a law protecting abortion nationwide. And many demanded that President Joe Biden expand the court to dilute the power of the conservative majority and restore judicial balance: 

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