General oerview by ABC News link

Summary from link:

Last week, the most severe abortion restriction in the country became law in Texas. SB8 is a six-week abortion ban, which amounts to more or less an outright ban, since many people don’t know they’re pregnant until after the six-week mark. Abortion clinics in the state have estimated that the law bans somewhere between 85% and 90% of the procedures they provide.

But perhaps the most shocking part of the law is how it’s enforced: SB8 is enforced not by the state attorney general or other government officials, but by private citizens, who are encouraged to snitch on people who violate the abortion ban by filing civil lawsuits against them. (And they are promised a minimum of $10,000 in “damages” if they win the suit – what abortion rights supporters are calling a “bounty”.) The threat of litigation and financial ruin has forced clinics across the state to comply with the law, even though its core principle – banning abortion – is still unconstitutional.

This legal mechanism has made it impossible for reproductive rights groups to pre-empt the law, since they can’t name the typical state enforcers as the defendants in their suits. The supreme court has failed to intervene, arguing in a Wednesday night shadow docket decision that abortion providers didn’t sufficiently address the “complex and novel antecedent procedural questions” in their emergency appeal.


Strong dissent by the minority judges described in link.

I've stated my stance on abortion time and time again. Extremely bad decision and one that really goes to highlight that America isn't actually a free country among other things.