A Texas woman can immediately terminate her pregnancy for health reasons, before the state’s Supreme Court rules on a larger challenge to the state’s abortion ban, a state district court judge ruled Thursday.
The emergency hearing in Travis County came two days after Cox sued the state, saying that her doctors told said her fetus won’t survive and the pregnancy is threatening her life and future health. Cox, 20 weeks pregnant, asked the court to approve the termination “now” as a medical exception to the abortion ban because her physicians are refusing to conduct the procedure so long as ...
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