Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sought abortion hours after she says she’ll travel out of state
“The idea that Miss Cox wants desperately to be a parent and this law might actually cause her to lose that ability is shocking and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice,” Gamble said.
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Woman who sued Texas for abortion left state to have procedure after ‘hellish’ week
“It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye to my baby, but when,” Cox said. “I do not want to continue the pain and suffering that has plagued this pregnancy. I do not want to put my body through the risks of continuing this pregnancy. I do not want my baby to arrive in this world only to watch her suffer. I need to end my pregnancy now so that I have the best chance for my health and a future pregnancy.”
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Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to get an abortion
“A Texas woman was just forced to beg for life-saving health care in court and now any doctor who provides her the care she urgently needs is being threatened with punishment including a lifetime prison sentence,” Escobar said in a statement. “This story is shocking, it’s horrifying, and it’s heartbreaking.”
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Texas woman fighting for legal abortion flees the state
Cox is a 31-year-old mother of two from the Dallas area. She sought an abortion after learning her fetus had been diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a chromosomal anomaly that leads to miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of the infant within hours, days or weeks after birth. Carrying the pregnancy to term would likely jeopardize her future fertility, and she and her husband said they wanted more children.
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Texas Woman Forced To Flee State For Abortion While State Supreme Court Takes Its Time
Her case has a combination of potent factors. The fetus’ outcome is grim — “her physicians have informed her that her pregnancy is likely to end in a stillbirth or at best, her baby will live for only minutes, hours, or days,” per court filings — and she is at heightened risk for a series of serious complications in the meantime. She has been sent to four emergency rooms in the past month, per a December 8 filing, and carrying the nonviable pregnancy to term will “make it more difficult and dangerous for her to have children in the future.”
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Pregnant Texas woman granted abortion calls legal fight ‘overwhelming’
“To force someone to carry out a nonviable pregnancy — at risk to her own life — is unthinkably cruel and barbaric,” Allred said in a statement to The Hill. “These extreme abortion bans are life-threatening. Texas women deserve freedom, not subjugation.”
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