Texas supreme court rejects challenge to abortion ban over medical exceptions<\/p>\n
The Texas<\/a> supreme court on Friday rejected a challenge from more than 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions under the state\u2019s near-total abortion ban, ruling in an unanimous opinion that the state\u2019s ban can stand as is.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Texas will continue its ban on abortions in medical emergencies, state Supreme Court rules<\/p>\n The ruling means physicians must wait until patients are dangerously ill before terminating their pregnancies \u2014 in some cases resulting in otherwise preventable health complications. Under the law, learning that a fetus is unlikely to survive does not allow doctors to perform an abortion.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state\u2019s abortion ban over exceptions for pregnancy complications<\/p>\n The ruling was unanimous. All of the nine justices are Republicans.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion laws<\/p>\n The court did call on the Texas Medical Board to issue guidance to help doctors better understand when they can perform an abortion in the eyes of the law. That guidance, which has not yet been finalized, has been criticized for offering little reassurance and, in some cases, confusing the issue further.<\/p>\n Read more at The Texas Tribune via kut.org<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas supreme court rejects challenge to abortion ban over medical exceptions The Texas supreme court on Friday rejected a challenge from more than 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions under the state\u2019s near-total abortion ban, ruling in an unanimous opinion that the state\u2019s ban can stand as is. 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":[172,244,90,310,10],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-lethal-fetal-anomalies","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-state-supreme-court","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}