Texas AG Threatens To Prosecute Doctors After Court Grants Abortion Exemption Over Nonviable Pregnancy

Reuters reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity.

Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from prosecution under all of Texas’s abortion laws, and that the woman, Kate Cox, had not shown she qualified for the medical exception to the state’s abortion ban.

Cox’s fetus was diagnosed on Nov. 27 with trisomy 18, a genetic abnormality that usually results in miscarriage, stillbirth or death soon after birth.

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Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion https://t.co/jH2OUjjpL8 pic.twitter.com/ZtaSaWquEY

— Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) December 7, 2023

This is insane.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sent a letter to three hospitals where Ms Cox’s doctor has admitting privileges. In it, he threatened to prosecute anyone who is involved in providing an emergency abortion to Ms Cox. https://t.co/HNY0303QyL pic.twitter.com/IcOnz7xkUo

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) December 8, 2023

This is Texas AG Ken Paxton saying he’ll throw a woman’s doctors in prison for life if they perform a *court-granted* abortion on a *nonviable* pregnancy that risks causing her permanent infertility and death.

Still think the GOP is pro-life? https://t.co/k3L3AZEsAg

— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) December 8, 2023