First published at 17:37 UTC on January 1st, 2024.
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Kate Cox was put in a nightmarish situation because of Republicans overturning Roe… this video reveals why.
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Kate Cox
“The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court's ruling that would have allowed a pregnant woman to get an emergency abortion under the medical exception for the state's near-total abortion ban… [Kate] 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…
“[Attorney General Ken] Paxton had urged the Texas Supreme Court to quickly step in after District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble at a hearing in Austin last Thursday issued a temporary restraining order allowing Cox to have an abortion… Paxton warned in a letter sent shortly after Gamble issued the order that it did not shield doctors, hospitals or anyone else from prosecution or potential civil liability for violating Texas' abortion laws…
“The high court, whose nine justices are all Republicans, said in its unsigned opinion that a ‘good faith belief’ by Damla Karsan, a doctor who sought to perform the abortion and sued alongside Cox, that the procedure was medically necessary was not enough to qualify for the state's exception. Instead, the court said, Karsan would need to determine in her ‘reasonable medical judgment’ that Cox had a ‘life-threatening condition’ and that an abortion was necessary to prevent her death or impairment of a major bodily function.” Reuters
From the Left
The left criticizes the Texas Supreme Court’s decision along with Texas’s abortion law.
“The scenario that Cox and her doctor are trying to avoid is one where her uterus literally tears itself open along her C-section scar during contractions. It is a not-uncommon complication in pregnancies where..
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