The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court ruling permitting an emergency abortion for a woman facing health and fertility complications, capping a whirlwind week in a contentious legal fight to the state’s near total abortion ban.
In an order that came down late Friday, the high court said it blocked the ruling as it considers the a Democratic judge’s decision to authorize an abortion for Dallas-area mother Kate Cox.
The stay in the case marks the latest development in a bitter fight that escalated to the high court within days of Cox filing the lawsuit this week. ...
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