The Texas Supreme Court says a Dallas-area woman isn’t entitled to an emergency abortion to protect her health and future fertility, a blow to abortion-rights advocates fighting the state’s near total abortion ban.
The unanimous decision Monday directs a lower court to vacate a temporary restraining order that authorized a doctor to perform an abortion on 31-year-old Kate Cox last week. Cox earlier on Monday said she couldn’t wait on the Supreme Court’s decision and would leave the state for care.
Saying that the decision isn’t up to the courts, the Supreme Court deferred decisions on Cox’s medical care to ...
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