Our columnists react to the Supreme Court declining an interim decision on a new Texas law, which restricts abortions after six weeks...

There used to be a concept in the United States called "settled law," a term that has been quoted by SCOTUS justices thousands of times in oral and written arguments. 

There are videos of current justices referring to Roe v. Wade as "settled law." In the face of the original decision almost half a century ago, considering settled law, how is it possible that the Texas law can stand? The court's decision in 1973 seemed pretty damn final to me then, and it seems final to me now. Legal abortion is the right of every woman to operate her own reproductive system without fear or favor, every day. ALL women in America, rich and poor, white and Asian, Black women and Hispanic women. --Jim McCraw