Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sought abortion hours after she says she\u2019ll travel out of state<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d Gamble said.<\/p>\n
Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Woman who sued Texas for abortion left state to have procedure after \u2018hellish\u2019 week<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye to my baby, but when,\u201d Cox said. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to get an abortion<\/p>\n \u201cA 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,\u201d Escobar said in a statement. \u201cThis story is shocking, it\u2019s horrifying, and it\u2019s heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n Texas woman fighting for legal abortion flees the state<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Read more at The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n Texas Woman Forced To Flee State For Abortion While State Supreme Court Takes Its Time<\/p>\n Her case has a combination of potent factors. The fetus\u2019 outcome is grim\u00a0\u2014 \u201cher 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,\u201d per court filings \u2014\u00a0and 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<\/a>, and carrying the nonviable pregnancy to term will \u201cmake it more difficult and dangerous for her to have children in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n Pregnant Texas woman granted abortion calls legal fight ‘overwhelming’<\/p>\n \u201cTo force someone to carry out a nonviable pregnancy \u2014 at risk to her own life \u2014 is unthinkably cruel and barbaric,\u201d Allred said in a statement to The Hill. \u201cThese extreme abortion bans are life-threatening. Texas women deserve freedom, not subjugation.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sought abortion hours after she says she\u2019ll travel out of state \u201cThe 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,\u201d Gamble said. Read more at … 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":[164,172,241,244,90,10],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-6-week-bans","tag-abortion-bans","tag-bounty-law","tag-lethal-fetal-anomalies","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","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=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}