Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas medical panel on Friday approved guidance for doctors working under one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans but refused to list specific exceptions to the law, which doctors have complained is dangerously unclear. The decision by the Texas Medical Board came less than a month after the state Supreme Court upheld the law that had been challenged by doctors and a group of women who argued it stopped them from getting medical care even when their pregnancies became dangerous. The same panel in March rebuffed calls to list specific exemptions, and the head of the board said doing so would have been beyond state law and the board’s authority. The medical board can take away the license of a doctor found to have performed an illegal abortion, and its findings could be used by prosecutors to pursue criminal charges or civil penalties.

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Abortion suit against doc came from boyfriend with 'your body, my choice' vendetta: expert
1 week ago

Abortion suit against doc came from boyfriend with 'your body, my choice' vendetta: expert

Raw Story  

A legal expert gave an eyebrow-raising opinion on a controversial effort in Texas, where the state's far-right attorney general last week sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman in suburban Dallas. "As we discussed on @Morning_Joe today, part of what's so chilling about Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a New York OB/GYN is how it likely …

Far-right Texas AG sues doctor — in New York — for mailing woman abortion pills
1 week, 3 days ago

Far-right Texas AG sues doctor — in New York — for mailing woman abortion pills

Raw Story  

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor on Friday that he accused of unlawfully providing a Texas woman abortion pills in violation of the conservative state’s strict abortion laws. The state’s three-term Republican attorney general claimed in the lawsuit filed Friday that physician Margaret Daley Carpenter violated a Texas law banning a physician from mailing or …

Shield laws under fire: Texas sues New York doctor over abortion pills
1 week, 3 days ago

Shield laws under fire: Texas sues New York doctor over abortion pills

India Today  

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the US to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. “Will doctors be more afraid to mail pills into Texas, even if they might be protected by shield laws …

Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against N.Y. doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine
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1 week, 3 days ago

Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against N.Y. doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine

LA Times  

Three members of the Women’s March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, last year. In suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, Texas has launched one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democratic-controlled states passed to protect physicians …

The Texas Attorney General is suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills
1 week, 3 days ago

The Texas Attorney General is suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills

NPR  

The Texas Attorney General is suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills The state of Texas is suing a doctor in New York, saying she prescribed abortion pills for a Texas woman in violation of its law. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The attorney general of Texas is suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman …

New York doctor sued for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine
1 week, 3 days ago

New York doctor sued for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against …

Texas' Abortion Pill Lawsuit Against New York Doctor Marks New Challenge To Interstate Telemedicine
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1 week, 3 days ago

Texas' Abortion Pill Lawsuit Against New York Doctor Marks New Challenge To Interstate Telemedicine

Huff Post  

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. “Will doctors be more afraid to mail pills into Texas, even if they might be protected by shield laws …

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills
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1 week, 4 days ago

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills

NPR  

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills toggle caption David Erickson/AP Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Sponsor Message …

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report

Salon  

A Texas committee that is meant to review pregnancy-related deaths in the state won’t review cases from 2022 and 2023, the Washington Post reported. Related How abortion funds are preparing for another Trump presidency According to the report, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members said in September the change was made to “be more contemporary.” The move has …

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths
3 weeks, 6 days ago

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

Raw Story  

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect. The Washington Post reports that the move by the committee is "leaving any potential deaths related to abortion …

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments
4 weeks ago

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments

Raw Story  

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, …

A Texas Woman Died After The Hospital Said It Would Be A 'Crime' To Intervene In Her Miscarriage
1 month, 3 weeks ago

A Texas Woman Died After The Hospital Said It Would Be A 'Crime' To Intervene In Her Miscarriage

Huff Post  

Josseli Barnica and her daughter in 2020 Credit:Courtesy of the Barnica family ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Her death was “preventable,” according to more than a dozen medical experts who reviewed a summary of her hospital and autopsy records at ProPublica’s request; they called her case “horrific,” “astounding” and “egregious.” The doctors involved in Barnica’s care at …

Texas Woman's Heart-Wrenching Story: A Tale of Sepsis and Loss
2 months ago

Texas Woman's Heart-Wrenching Story: A Tale of Sepsis and Loss

Associated Press  

A new series of Kamala Harris campaign ads highlights the precarious medical care for women since the fall of Roe v. Wade. One ad features a Texas woman who lost her baby to sepsis due to a lack of proper medical care. Another ad focuses on the emotional impact of the issue on both the woman and her husband.

Texas sues doctor and accuses her of violating ban on gender-affirming care
2 months ago

Texas sues doctor and accuses her of violating ban on gender-affirming care

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The lawsuit announced by Republican …

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
2 months ago

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A three-judge panel on Thursday …

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case

LA Times  

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for …

Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has sued the Biden administration to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek abortion where it is legal. The rule essentially prohibits state or local officials from gathering medical records related to reproductive health care for a civil, criminal or …

Texas women denied care for ectopic pregnancies proves exceptions are a "farce", experts say
4 months, 1 week ago

Texas women denied care for ectopic pregnancies proves exceptions are a "farce", experts say

Salon  

Several days after Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz found out she was pregnant in Texas, she started to experience bleeding and cramping. “I ended up losing half of my fertility and if I was made to wait any longer, it’s very likely I would have died.” This week, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed two complaints against two Texas hospitals — …

Texas woman’s lawsuit after being jailed on murder charge over abortion can proceed, judge rules
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Texas woman’s lawsuit after being jailed on murder charge over abortion can proceed, judge rules

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — A Texas woman who was jailed and charged with murder after self-managing an abortion in 2022 can move forward with her lawsuit against the local sheriff and prosecutors over the case that drew national outrage before the charges were quickly dropped, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton denied a motion by prosecutors …

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

CNN  

CNN — The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow the state’s ban on nearly all gender-affirming care for minors to remain in effect. LGBTQ advocacy groups slammed the ruling Friday, with Lambda Legal — one of the parties involved in the original lawsuit against the bill — saying, “It is impossible to overstate the devastating impact of this ruling.” …

Infant deaths spiked 13% in Texas following law restricting abortion, study finds
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Infant deaths spiked 13% in Texas following law restricting abortion, study finds

Salon  

A restrictive abortion law in Texas has been linked to in a sharp uptick in infant mortality that other states did not experience, a new study has found. Pediatric heath researchers from John Hopkins University report the number of newborn babies dying in Texas has increased by approximately 13% since the state's near-total abortion ban went into effect, according to …

Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban

Raw Story  

"Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. The Texas Medical Board on Friday adopted guidance for how doctors should interpret the state’s new abortion laws, reducing paperwork requirements …

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Texas medical panel on …

"Gut punch": Texas Supreme Court says "life-saving exception" is clear enough. Plaintiffs disagree
6 months, 2 weeks ago

"Gut punch": Texas Supreme Court says "life-saving exception" is clear enough. Plaintiffs disagree

Salon  

Over the last week, 31-year-old Taylor Edwards has had a lot to process emotionally. But last week, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that despite the horrific stories told by plaintiffs, the state’s abortion bans are clear in their exceptions. The Texas Supreme Court also said that as “painful as such circumstances are,” referring to fatal fetal anomalies, “the law does …

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life
6 months, 3 weeks ago

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life

Salon  

Lauren Miller was pregnant with twins when she landed in the emergency room after 36 straight hours of vomiting. Related How abortion bans are impacting pregnant patients across the country "As my medical providers tried to counsel me on my options," Miller said, "they would just stop mid-sentence, looking for the right words. Last week, the state's all-Republican Supreme Court …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Texas Supreme Court justices then overturned …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The court said the law’s exceptions, as written, …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski had been told that she had a condition that meant her fetus would not survive. 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 unanimous ruling from the court, whose nine justices are all elected Republicans, …

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban

Salon  

All nine Republican justices of the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the state's strict abortion ban on Friday that was brought by a group of women who said their lives were put at risk when they suffered serious pregnancy complications and could not access the necessary medical care. They claimed this happened because the state's abortion law isn’t …

Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule
8 months ago

Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule

Raw Story  

"Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Texas, meanwhile, has sued the Biden administration, saying it's using EMTALA as an end-run around state abortion bans to “mandate that …

Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies

The Independent  

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Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban
9 months ago

Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban

Associated Press  

DALLAS — A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The board’s proposed guidelines on exceptions to Texas’ ban on abortion from the moment of fertilization, issued …

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance

Salon  

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. “When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted,” …

In Texas case, federal appeals panel says emergency care abortions not required by 1986 law
11 months, 3 weeks ago

In Texas case, federal appeals panel says emergency care abortions not required by 1986 law

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — The Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency care law to require hospitals in Texas hospitals to provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The administration issued guidance that year saying hospitals “must” provide abortion services if there’s a risk to the mother’s life, citing the …

How Republicans paved the road to Texas with misogyny
1 year ago

How Republicans paved the road to Texas with misogyny

Raw Story  

As Donald Trump embraces an online campaign filled with vulgar imagery attacking women, he continues to brag that he “killed” abortion by appointing Supreme Court justices who, with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, reversed more than 50 years of women’s reproductive freedom. Demanding access to out-of-state abortion medical records, Republican AGs claimed, fantastically, that there was no …

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion
1 year ago

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion

Hindustan Times  

US President Joe Biden said it was "outrageous" that a woman was forced to leave Texas to seek an emergency abortion, after the state's courts said she could not terminate her risky pregnancy. On Monday Cox left the state to seek an emergency abortion -- and hours later the Texas Supreme Court issued an order siding with the government and …

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be
1 year ago

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be

LA Times  

Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis, had to leave her home state of Texas in order to obtain an abortion. A historic drama playing out in Texas ended Tuesday when the Texas Supreme Court held that Kate Cox, a woman 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus with trisomy 18, an almost always fatal abnormality, could not legally end …

Kate Cox sought an abortion in Texas. A court said no because she didn’t show her life was in danger
1 year ago

Kate Cox sought an abortion in Texas. A court said no because she didn’t show her life was in danger

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal condition, did not qualify for an abortion in Texas: not after four emergency room visits, elevated vital signs, risks of a uterine rupture and with her ability to have more children in jeopardy. The Texas Supreme Court’s rejection of the mother of two’s request for an exception under the state’s …

Kate Cox’s Texas abortion: the lie at the heart of overturning Roe v. Wade is now in plain sight.
1 year ago

Kate Cox’s Texas abortion: the lie at the heart of overturning Roe v. Wade is now in plain sight.

Slate  

Here is a partial list of the not-medically-trained people who made the medical determination that terminating Kate Cox’s 20-plus-week-old pregnancy would not fall under an approved exception to Texas’ three overlapping abortion bans. Not one of these people, mind you, knows anything about pregnancy, medicine, or Kate Cox’s life, they each just decided that because she did not suffer from …

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion
1 year ago

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion

Associated Press  

Last week, a Texas woman sued her home state for the right to obtain an abortion in a new kind of challenge to the bans that most Republican-controlled states have begun enforcing in the last year and a half since Roe v. Wade was overturned. On Friday, an Austin-based judge elected as a Democrat granted Cox permission to receive an …

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion
1 year ago

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Last week, a Texas woman …

Texas woman seeks emergency abortion out of state after Supreme Court block
1 year ago

Texas woman seeks emergency abortion out of state after Supreme Court block

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A Texas judge granted Kate Cox a temporary …

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
1 year ago

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — 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 most restrictive bans in the U.S. Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, had spent nearly a week seeking court permission in Texas to …

Texas Supreme Court rules against woman seeking abortion as she is forced to leave state
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court rules against woman seeking abortion as she is forced to leave state

The Telegraph  

The 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 …

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
1 year ago

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

LA Times  

Demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse in Austin, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. A pregnant Texas woman who was seeking court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. could not wait any longer and went to another state, her attorneys said Monday. …

Texas Supreme Court halts order allowing emergency abortion
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court halts order allowing emergency abortion

Al Jazeera  

Case seen as major test since constitutional right to abortion in the United States was overturned last year. The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court’s ruling that allowed a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant to get an abortion despite the conservative US state’s ban on the procedure. The one-page order from the all-Republican top court was …

Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from having an emergency abortion
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from having an emergency abortion

ABC  

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion shortly after the state's attorney general requested the block. Key points: The woman's fetus was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality that usually results in miscarriage, stillbirth or death soon after birth The Texas Supreme Court halted a lower court ruling for the abortion after a …

Texas court allows first abortion since ban
1 year ago

Texas court allows first abortion since ban

ABC  

A Texas judge has ruled that a woman with a complicated, likely non-viable pregnancy can get an abortion, in what her lawyers say is the first such case since the US Supreme Court last year allowed states to ban abortion. Key points: The state's abortion ban includes only a narrow exception on health grounds The ruling does not expand abortion …

A Texas judge grants a pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite the state’s ban
1 year ago

A Texas judge grants a pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite the state’s ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday gave a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge over bans that more than a dozen states have enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned. It’s just not realistic.” State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, an elected Democrat, granted a temporary restraining …

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