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Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision [1] of the US Supreme Court announced on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion.
At the time, First Assistant Attorney General of Texas Brent Webster decried Mangrum's decision as "an activist Austin judge’s attempt to override Texas abortion laws." [8] [10] On November 28, 2023, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zurawski. By this time, the number of plaintiffs in the case had increased to 22: 20 women ...
What has set the Texas case apart is that the women are believed to be the first in the U.S. to have sued a state and testify over being denied abortion following newly enacted bans. Show comments ...
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, abortion rights protests were held in Austin, [191] Dallas, Denton, [192] Houston, [193] and San Antonio. [194] In June 2024, Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton spoke out against Texas' abortion ban after his wife nearly bled to death after a Texas hospital refused to treat her miscarriage. [195]
What sets the Texas case apart, however, is that the women are believed to be the first in the U.S. to sue a state and testify over being denied abortion following newly enacted bans.
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.
Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case over a Mississippi abortion law blocking abortions after the fifteenth week, which is set to be heard in December 2021. Following the Supreme Court's refusal to block Texas's law, numerous friends-of-the-court briefs were submitted to support the position of abortion clinics in Dobbs . [ 19 ]
The recent cases of Brittany Watts in Ohio and Kate Cox in Texas are harrowing reminders of the consequences faced by women in states with draconian abortion laws, like Florida. These cases ...