TX AG Wins Suit Against Woman’s Emergency Abortion

The New York Times reports:

The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court order allowing an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition, hours after her lawyers said she had decided to leave Texas for the procedure in the face of the state’s abortion bans.

The court ruled that the lower court made a mistake in ruling that the woman, Kate Cox, who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, was entitled to a medical exception.

The legal authorization she obtained from the lower court was put on hold when Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, appealed to the Texas Supreme Court. But uncertain of when a ruling would come, her lawyers said on Monday that she had decided to seek an abortion in a state where it is legal.

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What’s screwed up about this is that the Court says drs should use reasonable judgment and courts can’t go further by entering the “medical-judgment arena.” But that’s exactly what the lege did w the abortion ban. https://t.co/ywutApvpwo

— Wendy Davis (@wendydavis) December 12, 2023

The court views the lawsuit itself as evidence Cox does not qualify for relief from the state’s ban, arguing that if she just waits until she develops a “life-threatening physical conditions,” she can have the procedure without having to go to court. https://t.co/jacs8HQWNX pic.twitter.com/ifffzgdnln

— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) December 12, 2023