Texas Senate Bill 8 (the Texas Heartbeat Act) took effect on September 1, 2021 and bans abortions after detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac activity (around six weeks), enforced exclusively through private civil lawsuits rather than government officials. As of 2025 its status is still listed as “in force.” (en.wikipedia.org)

Litigation never produced the kind of court ruling Sacks predicted. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block the law, allowing only a narrow challenge to proceed while keeping SB8 in effect. (congress.gov) In March 2022, the Texas Supreme Court held that no state officials are authorized to enforce SB8, meaning providers had no suitable government defendant to sue; following that, the Fifth Circuit ordered dismissal of challenges to SB8’s private-enforcement mechanism. The net effect was to leave the law intact and operational rather than overturn it. (texasattorneygeneral.gov)

After Dobbs (June 2022), Texas’s near‑total abortion ban is enforced through both Chapter 170A (the “trigger” law) and SB8’s civil‑enforcement scheme; contemporary reporting in 2025 still describes the Heartbeat Act as a core part of Texas’s abortion restrictions, not as a law that has been struck down. (houstonchronicle.com) There is no court decision overturning SB8 or removing it from force.

Because SB8 has not been overturned in court and remains in force more than four years after the prediction, the claim that “this is going to get overturned” is best scored as wrong.