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The Texas Supreme Court's Friday ruling is in line with a decision it issued in December, directing a lower court to vacate an order that had blocked the state's abortion ban from applying in the ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state's abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious ...
Texas first enacted Senate Bill 8, a six-week abortion ban, in September 2021, nine months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.
The public meeting dealt new discouragement and anger to opponents who have urged courts and Texas lawmakers for nearly two years to clarify exceptions to the state's ban. In December, Kate Cox, a mother of two from Dallas, sued the state for the right to obtain an abortion after her fetus developed a fatal condition and she made multiple trips ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. The ruling ...
Texas law allows abortion when, in a doctor's "reasonable medical judgment," the mother has "a life-threatening physical condition that places her at risk of death or serious physical impairment."
The law creates an "affirmative defense" rather than an outright exception to the abortion ban, meaning doctors could still be charged, sued or arrested but would have a defense in court for their ...
A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal condition left the state to get an abortion elsewhere before the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected her unprecedented challenge of one of the ...