Some good news for abortion rights supporters came on Oct. 6 out of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas fiefdom, where many of the women who voted for Donald Trump the past two elections have undoubtedly rethought their positions. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered the state to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the United States, enacted in September and banning most abortions in America’s second-most populous state.

The order is the first legal court challenge to Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early opposition, mostly by various women’s groups and including the Saturday,

Oct. 2 Women’s March for Reproductive Rights, a series of parades and rallies that swept the nation. The lawsuit was brought by the Joe Biden administration on anti-Constitution grounds, in the new law’s obvious attempt to virtually destroy 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision granting women what has become known as the “right to choose.”

Abbott’s thankfully-halted abortion restrictions amounted to virtually an outright ban, with no exceptions for rape or incest, along with a medically ludicrous six-week period when the procedure could be legally performed. This would give a woman two weeks at the most to even suspect that they’re pregnant, as well as having tests to make sure, and contacting a provider and scheduling an abortion. As a Planned Parenthood spokesperson said, “If you don’t understand many people don’t even know they’re pregnant until after six weeks, then you shouldn’t be restricting their options.”

It looks like Abbott could use a quick course in human sexuality to update his “knowledge” of the female birthing process. And Democrat representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounds like she’d be only too happy to head that classroom for him, saying “I’m sorry we have to break down Biology 101 on national television, but in case no one has informed him (Abbott) before in his life, six weeks pregnant means two weeks late for your period. And two weeks late on your period … can happen if you’re stressed, if your diet changes or for really no reason at all. So you don’t (really) have six weeks.”

Abbott’s controversial edict was also written as a civil violation instead of a criminal infraction, making any private citizen in Texas a potential abortion “bounty hunter” and giving them the legal right to sue any doctor or health care worker who they suspect of assisting a woman in having an abortion. And these potential stool pigeons stand to be awarded at least $10,000 for any successful lawsuit they bring, along with both fines and prison time for the doctors involved.

And the Texas Right To Life group also has set up a “whistleblower website” making it easier for anyone to anonymously post names and addresses of people they suspect of violating the new law. This caused many clinics to close until Wednesday’s halt of the abortion legislation, but nevertheless still has the potential in the gun-happy Lone Star State for providers to fear daily for their very lives while the legal battle plays out going forward.

President Biden has eradicated many of Donald Trump’s disastrous policies from Day One of his presidency with a combination of executive orders and, in this case, a court legal challenge. Along with Mississippi, there are many other red states attempting to end Roe v. Wade, along with enacting new voting laws making it harder for Democrat-favoring minority voters to exercise their election rights. We can expect a plethora of legal challenges to these two topics to continue for the next year or two as the Republican Party does its level best on both state and federal levels to enact new ultra-conservative regulations, as if Biden’s predecessor were still in office.