The Texas Supreme Court unanimously sided with Paxton. With no doctors in Texas willing to chance prosecution, Cox was forced to leave the state to avoid risking her life and ability to have another child. Having done so, her family now faces the legal risk that someone will seek to take advantage of Texas’s bounty law, which provides a financial payday for a plaintiff who sues anyone who “aids or abets” someone getting an abortion. An additional chapter is therefore possible in this grotesque spectacle, in which the government of Texas sought to inflict needless suffering on a mother and her family in order to force her to carry a doomed pregnancy.
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