Texas Supreme Court rules against woman seeking abortion as she is forced to leave state
The TelegraphThe Supreme Court of Texas has overturned a ruling that would have allowed a woman to terminate her pregnancy under the medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Instead, the court said, Dr Karsan would need to determine in her “reasonable medical judgment” that Ms Cox had a “life-threatening condition” and that an abortion was necessary to prevent her death or impairment of a major bodily function. “The law leaves to physicians - not judges - both the discretion and the responsibility to exercise their reasonable medical judgment, given the unique facts and circumstances of each patient.’’ Speaking on behalf of the Centre for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based non-profit that has been supporting Ms Cox, lawyer Molly Duane said the ruling ‘‘should enrage every Texan to their core’’. “After a week of legal whiplash and threats of prosecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get healthcare outside of the state,” the Centre for Reproductive Rights said in a statement on Monday.