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Woman who sued Texas for abortion left state to have procedure after ‘hellish’ week (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave to c/health

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Center for the Reproductive Rights, which is representing Kate Cox, says she left after being ‘in and out of the emergency room’

The Texas woman who sued the state for an abortion after receiving a lethal fetal diagnosis has now fled Texas in order to obtain the procedure, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced in a statement Monday.

The woman, Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from Dallas, sued Texas last week. While a lower-court judge ruled to allow Cox to receive an abortion, the Texas state supreme court on Friday paused that ruling. In her lawsuit, Cox said that continuing the pregnancy could threaten her life and future fertility.

Texas bans almost all abortions. Although the ban technically includes exceptions for cases of medical emergencies, doctors have said that the exceptions are too vague and force them to wait until their patients get sick enough to intervene.

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[–] mandelbrotvurst 63 points 11 months ago (3 children)

IANAL, but it seems to me that if the State deliberately restricts a life saving procedure they have effectively sentenced you to death without due process, violating the 14th amendment (since it's a Texas state law).

[–] ysjet 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're just going to argue that they didn't deliberately restrict it, they paused it, because she wasn't in life-threatening danger YET.

Remember, the cruelty and suffering of women is the point, they get off on it.

[–] EatYouWell 16 points 11 months ago

Plus, they want this shit to go in front of the SC so they'll rule in favor of it.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~Obama's~~ Abbott's Death Panels.

[–] misophist 13 points 11 months ago

Their point of view is that you are sentencing an unborn child to death without due process. Then if you try to argue medical science, they counter with God's will. Good luck.