From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a Daily.

Today, a Texas law banning most abortions has gone into effect

with the blessing of the Supreme Court.

I spoke with my colleague Adam Liptec about why this law survived a legal process

that so many previous anti-abortion laws have not.

It's Friday, September 3rd.

Adam, pretty much since the start of this show,

at the beginning of the Trump administration, we have been talking with you

about this moment when the increasingly conservative Supreme Court might take direct aim

at abortion rights and Roe v Wade. You had warned us that the court would be slow

to do that to avoid the perception of being too political.

Now we have this ruling. Is this that big moment?

Yes and no. What the court has accomplished is in Texas, women now as a practical matter

can't get abortions after six weeks. That's blatantly at odds with Roe,

which says that before viability, which is to say about 22 to 24 weeks,

states can't ban abortion. So in that sense, this is completely at odds with Roe.

At the same time, it was the majority would say,

a modest procedural ruling, not definitive, they didn't decide to overrule Roe,

they didn't decide a constitutional question at all, they say.

But this decision just before midnight and Wednesday, as a practical matter,

overturned the ability of women in Texas to get the abortions that Roe guarantees them.

Well, like you said, it is that moment and it's not that moment.

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