Texas woman files emergency lawsuit to terminate her non-viable pregnancy | Texas
A woman in Texas has filed an emergency lawsuit seeking permission to terminate her non-viable pregnancy. The woman, Kate Cox, is 20 weeks pregnant and her baby has trisomy 18, a fatal chromosomal condition. Due to Texas’s abortion bans, Cox has been unable to get an abortion, despite her doctors advising her that continuing the pregnancy threatens her life, health, and future fertility. Her lawyers from the Center for Reproductive Rights are seeking a temporary restraining order to block the state’s abortion bans from applying to her. This is the first time since the Roe v Wade ruling in 1973 that an adult woman has asked a court to authorize an abortion.
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