From 1st September 2021, it has become illegal in Texas to have an abortion six weeks after the start of the pregnancy because of a new unique law of its kind that opens a new frontier in the clash between Washington, individual states and the Supreme Court. What is the law about? Signed in May by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Senate Bill 8 – also called the Texas Heartbeat Act – makes any abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy illegal, barring cases where the mother’s life is in great danger. This temporal term coincides with the first possibility…