Texas women denied abortions ask court for clarity over ban exceptions<\/p>\n
Women say they were told they could not end pregnancies even though their lives and health were in danger<\/p>\n
Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: \u2018There was no mercy\u2019<\/p>\n Molly Duane, the attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, attacked the defendant’s arguments, laid out in a court filing in June<\/a>, that none of the patient plaintiffs have the right to sue the state \u2014 the legal concept known as standing. In the document, the state argued that the women’s past harm is the fault of the their doctors and their future harm \u2014 such as damage to their reproductive health \u2014 is hypothetical.<\/p>\n Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n Woman suing Texas over abortion ban vomits on the stand in emotional reaction during hearing<\/p>\n The Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision in June 2022 triggered a ban in Texas that outlawed all abortions, except to save the life of a pregnant woman. Prior to that, the state had banned abortions after the detection of a so-called fetal heartbeat \u2014 around six weeks into the pregnancy. Physicians who violate Texas\u2019s abortion laws can lose their medical licenses, face up to 99 years in prison or incur fines of at least $100,000, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Texas Denied Her Abortion Care. She Threw Up In Court Recalling Her Trauma.<\/p>\n Casiano said she had her tubes tied. Brandt said she and her husband agreed to stop at two children, even though the couple had long planned to have three. Zurawski wants to get pregnant again but faces an uphill battle because doctors had to reconstruct her uterus and clear her fallopian tubes, leaving one permanently closed.<\/p>\n Read more at Huffpost<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas women denied abortions ask court for clarity over ban exceptions Women say they were told they could not end pregnancies even though their lives and health were in danger Read more at The Guardian Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: \u2018There was no mercy\u2019 Molly Duane, the attorney for the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,155,134,10],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-6-week-bans","tag-abortion-restrictions","tag-fetal-heartbeat-laws","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}