A Texas judge created an exception to the state's abortion ban for those struggling with complex pregnancies. As stevebenen writes, that victory was short lived, thanks to the state attorney general's office.
It was five months ago when a group of Texas women who were denied abortions despite grave risks sued over the GOP-imposed ban. The New York Times
that their litigation marked “the first time that pregnant women themselves have taken legal action against the bans that have shut down access to abortion across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”soon after, the women who filed the case actually wanted to be pregnant — until they learned about their tragic circumstances, including two fetuses that had no skulls.
Legal filings can sometimes be dry and technical, but this lawsuit was a qualitatively different kind of document. As my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin, the filing detailed “the gruesome reality of life in a post-Roe America, specifically in Texas.” The Times’ report added that one of the plaintiffs, Amanda Zurawski, “was told she was not yet sick enough to receive an abortion, then twice became septic, and was left with so much scar tissue that one of her fallopian tubes is permanently closed.
“You don’t think you’re somebody who’s going to need an abortion, let alone an abortion to save my life,” Zurawski said. “If anybody reads my story, I don’t care where they are on the political spectrum, very few people would agree there is anything pro-life about this.” For advocates of reproductive rights, the good news is this argument prevailed, and a Texas judge agreed that women with complicated pregnancies in the state deserve an exemption from the ambiguously worded ban.In other words, a judge concluded that the state’s abortion ban, which is supposed to protect women facing “substantial” harm, can continue to remain in place, but with an exception for those struggling with complicated pregnancies.
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