Last week, a woman named Kate Cox sued the State of Texas (from which she resides in) for the right to have an immediate abortion which would be lifesaving. On Monday, December 11th, she was denied her query by the Texas Supreme Court.
When she sued the state, she was 20 weeks pregnant. In her court filings, she stated that delivering the baby via a C-section would put her at risk for uterine rupture, which would endanger any future pregnancies.
Last month, tests confirmed that the baby had a condition called trisomy 18, which means that the baby had an extra chromosome. Due to that, the baby would almost certainly die either in the uterus or very shortly after birth.
Many states including her home state of Texas have state laws which ban abortion. Before Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, these laws weren’t in effect. However since the Dobbs decision, anti-abortion laws have came back into effect in many states, including Texas.
Kate Cox says that doctors told her that they could not provide her an abortion due to the state’s several laws against it.
Last Friday, a liberal judge from Austin had given her permission to receive an abortion, however the state attorney general cautioned saying that any doctors who performed one could still face consequences. Later the same day is when the Texas Supreme Court swiftly put the lower court’s order on hold.
Then on Monday evening the Texas Supreme Court had finally made the decision to rule against Kate Cox. They found that her complications didn’t qualify for the medical emergency exceptions that allowed for an abortion to take place.
Footnote: Our Twitter/X: @WiscAdvance Article wrote by Emma (@ProgressiveEmma on Twitter/X), on December 15, 2023. Copyright The Wisconsin Advance
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