The U.S. Supreme Court's failure to act immediately to enjoin Texas's Senate Bill 8—a near-total ban on abortion before many people would even know they are pregnant—is "stunning," as Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent to the court's order in Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson, 594 U. S. __ (2021), on Sept. 1. She wrote: "Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand."