The Texas Supreme Court has halted a district court’s order that granted a pregnant woman the right to an abortion despite the state’s strict abortion ban.
The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from getting an emergency abortion, a lower court decision in a lawsuit by a pregnant woman seeking a court-authorized abortion, with the move blocking her ability to terminate the pregnancy.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily halted a lower court’ decision that granted a pregnant woman the ability to get an emergency court-authorized abortion despite the state’s strict rules against getting one.
The high court’s Dec. 9 decision came after a district court a day earlier granted a request for an emergency abortion in a lawsuit brought by Kate Cox, a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant and whose unborn baby was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a condition that causes multiple structural abnormalities that doctors said gave it no chance of survival after birth.
By an order issued on Dec. 8, the Texas Supreme Court applied an administrative stay—without ruling on the merits of the case—to the temporary restraining order issued by a judge at the District Court of…
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